On over 600 occasions last year, Cathy Benton’s backup family care program kept Alston & Bird attorneys working when they’d otherwise have taken a day off to look after sick children or elderly parents.
Benton has long been a leader in law firm human relations, and over the last couple of years she has continued to show the way for the legal profession. She began in 2001 with a day care center ["Culture Club, November/December 2006] that now results in at least $1.5 million in annual savings and will soon be expanded by 70 percent. Then, in 2006, she convinced the firm to implement an emergency backup care program for children and elderly parents that costs just $4 an hour and is available even if the patients are in another state. She also put in place an extended parental leave program for primary care givers, offering three months’ paid leave and an additional three months’ unpaid. There is also now maternity parking close to the building for expectant mothers, a co-op closet for maternity clothes swapping, and a caregiver support group.
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