I am stepping into a new leadership role at my firm for our parent affinity group. If you have a similar group at your firm, what do you love about it? What do you dislike about it? What do you wish it did?

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It’s pretty useless at Dentons. Unless you’re actually providing real changes, I would advise not even participating because it’s just going to kind of waste your time.

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What is that?

Advocate, or just manage expectations and attempt to reduce turnover without actually doing anything?

We have groups organized by the age of the kids (roughly pre-k, elementary, jr high/hs) that meet about once a month for a guided discussion. I like being able to discuss industry specific concerns and problems with my colleagues and peers, but I wish we could get enough people involved that we could divide it by partners, associates, and staff, since we seem to have different problems and concerns.

A group should not be required. The existence of the group shows how far the firm has to go o the issue

I dislike that it's mostly discussions. Those are nice but I'd like to see solutions, options, things we can do to survive not just complain about them.

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