This Biglaw Firm’s Baby Boom Among New Partners Is No Coincidence

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From a systemic standpoint, what this says is Vinson & Elkins is really focused on developing talent and creating situations where our top people can be whole people. We really recognize that being a top-shelf lawyer and partner means that we need to pay attention to the whole person.

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— Hy Pomerance, chief talent officer at Vinson & Elkins, in comments given to the Texas Lawyer on the number of newborn babies among the firm’s latest partnership class. Six out of seven new partners at V&E have newborns, and Pomerance says it happened for a reason. “We obviously have all sorts of scaffolding around our attorneys — as a lot of firms do — but we think about it from a holistic standpoint,” he said.

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