Family Medical Leave: What It Means For You & Your Firm

Does your office have a family medical leave policy? Should it? What are your firm’s legal obligations, and how are other firms handling this issue? With the changing demographics of the Maine bar and progressing notions of family and work-life balance, more and more firms are finding themselves confronted with attorneys’ leave requests for starting families, caring for aging relatives, or dealing with other family-related medical issues. Our panel will offer an overview of the relevant law as well as a discussion of standard practices and policies (to the extent they exist) that surround family medical leave within the legal profession in Maine.

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