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DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION

AFS Pipeline Initiatives Family Benefits

Adoption
The firm’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion is reflected 65% Many of our lawyers and business professionals balance demands outside & Surrogacy

in our efforts to create a strong, diverse pipeline into our firm and the workplace with their work, and we are dedicated to helping them and Reimbursement
the legal profession.strategy and a key driver of our success. their families.
Attorneys who have inner genius and passion can thrive here. Diverse Summer Associates Adoption & Surrogacy Reimbursement $25,000
ArentFox Schiff recognizes that families are built in many ways. To support eligible individuals
Since 2018, each of our summer on their path to building a family, the firm offers both an Adoption Reimbursement Program individual
associate classes has been composed and a Surrogacy Reimbursement Program. Eligible individuals may be reimbursed up to a reimbursement
of at least 65% diverse law students. maximum of $25,000 for qualified expenses related to adoption or surrogacy, with a lifetime
External Scholarships Job Fairs $50,000
maximum reimbursement of $50,000 combined for the firm’s Adoption and Surrogacy
We annually provide scholarships through We annually attend and recruit students Reimbursement Programs. lifetime maximum
the Hispanic Lawyers Scholarship Fund of from the following career fairs: Cook reimbursement
Illinois and Loyola University Chicago School County Bar Association Minority Job Parental Leave
of Law, which awards the ArentFox Schiff Fair, National LGBTQ+ Bar Association’s At ArentFox Schiff, new parents receive a total of 12 weeks of paid parental leave. Birthing Parental
Waldron Endowed Scholarship to a full- Lavender Law Conference & Career Fair, and parents are eligible for an additional 8 weeks through short term disability leave, and 8 weeks Leave
time Loyola law student from a historically Boston Lawyers Group Diversity Job Fair. $25,000 of additional leave is also available to those parents forming their families through adoption or
underrepresented group who demonstrates scholarship and surrogacy.
exceptional academic performance. salaried position Mindful
Mindful Return
The firm is committed to helping new parents best transition back to work after parental leave. Return
We offer new parents returning from parental leave the opportunity to enroll in a four-week
online program designed to navigate the transition back to work. Milk
AFS Diversity
Leadership Council on Legal Georgetown Law’s Early Milk Stork Stork
Diversity 1L Scholar Outreach Initiative Scholarship Program While AFS attorneys and business professionals are traveling on firm business, they can take
advantage of no-fuss, refrigerated, express shipping, or toting of breast milk home to your baby.
We partner with Fannie Mae to host a 1L We are proud to partner with Georgetown Since 2006, we have annually awarded scholarships Leave FLEX
LCLD Scholar. The 1L LCLD Scholars Program Law to increase the diversity of the law school to diverse law students across our offices, resulting The firm will reimburse for the charges associated with using the program while on business
is designed to strengthen the legal pipeline applicant pool by reaching out to high school in 60 scholarships and growing. travel. Program
by expanding the number of opportunities students in under-served communities. Each recipient receives a $25,000 scholarship Leave FLEX Program
for diverse first-year law students. and salaried position in our Summer Program.
This program provides eligible individuals who take a foreseeable Parental or Disability Leave
of at least one month with a reduction in their work schedule both prior to and after returning
from leave.

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