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 Second Consecutive Year Law Firm Earns Spot on Magazine's“100 Best Companies To Work For” List
January 8, 2007 ( ROCHESTER , N.Y. ) – Nixon Peabody LLP, a full-service law firm with more than six hundred attorneys, has been named one of the “100 Best Companies To Work For” by FORTUNE magazine. This is the second consecutive year the law firm has been named to the list, and the second time the firm has earned the 49 th ranking on the list. The complete list and related stories appear in the January 22 issue of FORTUNE, available on newsstands January 15 and at www.fortune.com on January 8.
Every year, FORTUNE magazine selects the one hundred best companies to work for in the United States from hundreds of candidates. An organization must excel in many areas to be chosen. Companies are scored on job satisfaction, benefits, diversity, compensation, employee communications, camaraderie, and philanthropy. Two thirds of a company's score is based on the opinions of the company's own employees.
“We at Nixon Peabody are delighted by this recognition, especially because it calls attention to something that we have known for quite some time—that the best companies to work for are made up of the best people to work with,” said Harry P. Trueheart, chairman of Nixon Peabody. “Our people are our essence. The spirit, skills, and dedication of our personnel have made Nixon Peabody a special place to work, and a great organization for our clients to do business with. We are pleased to stand among many of the nation's most respected companies, and to pay tribute to our personnel in such a powerful way.”
Nixon Peabody uses five strategic objectives—client satisfaction, employee satisfaction, professional development, quality processes, and financial performance—to guide its financial and workplace success. William Simpson, director of human resources at Nixon Peabody, said, “At Nixon Peabody, our strategic drivers constantly remind us to listen to our people and focus evenly on all, rather than just one, of our objectives. These underlying objectives provide a roadmap for continuous improvement in a number of key areas, ensuring that year after year progress is achieved in making Nixon Peabody a better place to work.”
Nixon Peabody offers a variety of innovative benefit and career development programs. Many are unique within the legal industry and include:
Benefits That Support Employees' Lives
- Benefits that include health and dental coverage, an employee assistance plan, child care resources, family leave benefits, supplemental accidental death and dismemberment insurance, dependent life insurance, long-term care insurance, back-up day care, elder care and a gender-neutral four-week paid parenting leave
- A paid-time off (PTO) policy that allows employees to carry over unused time off and enables the firm to “buy back” unused PTO from nonexempt employees at 100% or 120% of the value
Benefits That Support Career Development and Enhancement
- A job satisfaction survey that uses employee input to determine areas for improvement
- A Diversity Action Committee that supports the firm's goal of being an innovative leader in diversity
- Extensive learning and development programs for all personnel
About Nixon Peabody
Nixon Peabody LLP is one of the largest law firms in the United States with more than 600 attorneys collaborating across 15 major practice areas in 16 office locations, including Boston , Los Angeles , New York City, Rochester , San Francisco , and Washington , DC . The firm's size, diversity and advanced technological resources enable it to offer comprehensive legal services to individuals and organizations of all sizes in local, state, national, and international matters. |
