Written by By Joan Fleischer Tamen and Sandra Knispel with additional reporting by Anne Alonzo    PDF Print E-mail


Conceive Magazine's Top 10 Companies

ARNOLD.BLDGArnold & Porter

LOCATION: Washington, DC

EMPLOYEES: 1,375

INDUSTRY: Legal Services

FERTILITY BENEFITS: $30,000 lifetime cap for treatment and drug coverage.

ADOPTION BENEFITS: $5,000 per adoption, no lifetime cap.

LEAVE: 18 weeks paid for birth mother and adoptive caregivers ; 6 weeks paid for secondary adoptive caregivers and birth fathers.

WEBSITE: www.arnoldporter.com


Families Who Benefited
They are a two-career professional couple together since their college days. In their mid-30s they bought a big suburban home in a community with good schools and parks; they were ready to start a family. Read More

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