Which firms have the best parental leave policy/maternity leave. Specifically looking for patent litigation.

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Latham’s is pretty generous. 22 weeks at 100% base pay. And after you take your leave, you can work full time remote for up to 6 months.

I’m also in patent lit and we have had several associates go on parental leave and weren’t bothered while they were gone. They all took the full time, too.

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14 weeks for fathers FYI.

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Policy on paper means nothing. Finnegan gave me about 2 weeks before starting pestering me return to work.

Cherry on top? The pester came from the same partner who gave me a talk about how family is important and how I should make boundary to protect bonding time

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THIS WAS ILLEGAL.

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Kirkland’s is 18 weeks + 4 weeks of optional attorney time off.

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@associate 5 the distinction is between birthing and non birthing parent

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Damn 22 weeks is nice!

Baker Botts is 18 weeks at full base. People definitely take full leave, and others are very respectful of it. Annoyingly, leave has to be taken all at once unless you have approval from department chair (not sure how difficult that is to get).

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Curious if any other firms have a rule where you don’t go up a class year if you take more than 6 months of leave.

What firm is this??

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I’ve been with Accenture for 10 years and am about to take maternal leave. I got an interesting conversation with HR yesterday about leaving Accenture after maternal leave, and the kicker is to join the client. I got a couple of questions for you guys:

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Earlier roles Customer service, Startup founder, Project Manager.

Now got role as Associate Product Manager in a farm tech startup.

Is good to join and after working here for 1 year is it possible to move to bigger MNC like Capgemini or Infosys or Any big player

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IM JUST BLANK.

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