Washington, DC — May 4, 2012 — Hunton & Williams is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a place on Yale Law Women's 2012 list of Top Ten Family Friendly Firms. The annual listing honors leaders in the law firm industry that demonstrate a strong commitment to women’s programs and family friendly practices. In addition to being named a Top Ten Firm, Hunton & Williams also received Yale Law Women's Recognition of Superior Performance in two areas: Overall Support of Part-Time/Flex-Time Use and Overall Support of Parental Leave Policy Use.
Hunton & Williams is committed to maintaining a diverse workforce and has multiple programs in place to recruit and retain minority and women lawyers. Additional recognition for the firm’s women’s initiatives includes being listed by MultiCultural Law magazine as a Top 100 Law Firm for Women for the past seven years and being included among Working Mother Media's 50 Best Law Firms for Women three of the four years the listing has been published.
About Hunton & Williams LLP
Hunton & Williams LLP provides legal services to corporations, financial institutions, governments and individuals, as well as to a broad array of other entities. Since our establishment more than a century ago, Hunton & Williams has grown to more than 800 lawyers serving clients in 100 countries from 19 offices around the world. While our practice has a strong industry focus on energy, financial services and life sciences, the depth and breadth of our experience extends to more than 100 separate practice areas, including bankruptcy and creditors rights, commercial litigation, corporate transactions and securities law, intellectual property, international and government relations, regulatory law, products liability, and privacy and information management.