MINNEAPOLIS, MN(August 12, 2008) – Working Mother magazine, the authoritative source for career mothers, and Flex-Time Lawyers LLC, a national consulting firm advising attorneys and legal employers on work/life balance, have named Gray Plant Mooty a 2008 Working Mother & Flex-Time Lawyers Best Law Firm for Women. In order to effect change, the two have partnered for the second year in a row to recognize 50 firms that have redefined the standards of success by creating a workplace that encourages the retention and advancement of women.

“Gray Plant Mooty is proud of its long history of employing men and women who achieve excellence both in parenting and in their profession,” says Tamara Hjelle Olsen, GPM’s managing officer. “We appreciate this award, which recognizes our success in helping working mothers achieve this balance.”

Gray Plant Mooty is profiled in the August/September 2008 issue of Working Mother and at www.workingmother.com and www.flextimelawyers.com. GPM will also be honored at a luncheon at the Mandarin Oriental in New York on September 15, 2008. That morning, Working Mother and Flex-Time Lawyers will hold a forum to report for the first time the findings of their national research on the trends and share best practices of work/life balance and women in the legal profession.

“Today nearly half of law school graduates are women. Law firms need to make a fundamental shift in their policies by instituting female and family-friendly benefits as Gray Plant Mooty has done,” said Carol Evans, CEO, Working Mother Media. “We hope that by recognizing GPM, who has already moved the needle, a paradigm shift will follow.”

Methodology: The 2008 Best Law Firms for Women application was developed in a partnership between Working Mother and Flex-Time Lawyers LLC. Firms with at least 50 lawyers were eligible to apply and the application included detailed questions about the issues that are most important to the retention and promotion of female lawyers. Gray Plant Mooty was selected based on responses to an application measuring areas such as workforce profile, family-friendly benefits and policies, flexibility, leadership, compensation, advancement and retention of women.