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POLL: Has Your Law Firm Declared Juneteenth A Paid Firm Holiday? (2025)
Law firms of all sizes are getting on board with Juneteenth as a holiday. Which firms are recognizing this important day? The post POLL: Has Your Law Firm Declared Juneteenth A Paid Firm Holiday? (2025) appeared first on Above the Law.
Back in June 2021, President Joe Biden signed a bill to make Juneteenth an official federal holiday, memorializing the end of slavery in the United States. Before that momentous occasion, in the wake of protests that swept the nation following the George Floyd murder, Biglaw firms raced to meet the moment, stepping up one by one to announce that Juneteenth would be recognized as a holiday, giving employees the time to reflect on issues of racial injustice in America.
Unfortunately, times have changed since then, and against the backdrop of Trump’s sweeping anti-DEI declarations, Juneteenth celebrations have been dimmed, with support for these initiatives being pulled. But what about law firms?
To our knowledge, the following firms have declared Juneteenth a holiday, granting employees either half or full days off:
- Akerman
- Akin Gump
- Alterman Law Group
- Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholar
- Baker Botts
- Baker Donelson
- Ballard Spahr
- Blank Rome
- Boies Schiller
- Bradley Arant
- Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner
- Cahill
- Clifford Chance
- Cooley
- Covington
- Davis & Gilbert
- Davis Wright Tremaine
- Debevoise
- Dechert
- Dinsmore & Shohl
- Dorsey & Whitney
- Faegre Drinker
- Foley Hoag
- Foley & Lardner
- Freshfields
- Fried Frank
- Gibson Dunn
- Goulston & Storrs
- Greenberg Traurig
- Greenspoon Marder
- Griesing Law
- Haynes and Boone
- Hogan Lovells
- Jackson Lewis
- Katten
- Kelley Drye
- Kiernan Trebach
- Kirkland
- Kramer Levin
- Latham
- Littler
- Loeb & Loeb
- Mayer Brown
- McDermott
- Moore & Van Allen
- Morgan Lewis
- Morrison & Foerster
- Munger Tolles & Olson
- Norton Rose
- Ogletree
- Patterson Belknap
- Paul Weiss
- Perkins Coie
- Polsinelli
- Reed Smith
- Ropes & Gray
- Schulte
- Selendy Gay
- Seyfarth
- Shearman
- Sheppard Mullin
- Sidley
- Simpson Thacher
- Stroock
- Sullivan & Cromwell
- Sullivan & Worcester
- Venable
- Vinson & Elkins
- Weil (opt-in)
- White & Case
- Willkie
- Wilson Sonsini
- Winston & Strawn
There are many, many more law firms in this country — where do the rest of the Am Law 100, Am Law 200, midsize firms, and elite boutiques stand as far as Juneteenth is concerned? Taking a step back from legal work to commemorate the day and encouraging all employees to reflect on the legacy of slavery sends a important signal from the top of the firm that this is a very important issue.
