Allen & Overy will allow its partners to work part-time, to encourage more women to stick around.
It’s fair to say that the round-the-clock demands of working as a partner in a top legal firm aren’t brilliantly suited to family life – which is partly why so many women decide against it. But this could be about to change, at least at Allen & Overy: the City’s fourth largest law firm is proposing to allow leading partners to work more flexibly, the idea being to stop women walking away from top jobs in the legal profession. This is certainly a step in the right direction, and it would be nice if other law firms followed suit. But will it actually work in practice? (no pun intended)
Of course, flexible working is nothing new, even in the rather old-fashioned legal world. Like most law firms, Allen & Overy already gives junior lawyers and support staff the option to work flexibly – but partners were regarded as too important not to be in the office full-time.
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