Holland & Knight's Women's Initiative enhances professional opportunities and creates a positive and supportive environment for the firm's women attorneys. The initiative helps women partners and associates develop new clients and expand relationships with existing clients and contacts, many of whom are also women. It is also a vehicle through which the firm's women connect with community and other women's organizations.

The firm's support for women is evidenced by the leadership positions held by women in the firm and by the recognition Holland & Knight has received from other organizations. Women partners serve as directors, section and deputy section leaders, team leaders, and executive partners within their respective offices. In 2007, Holland & Knight was named a best law firm for women by Working Mother magazine and Flex-Time Lawyers LLC, a national consulting firm advising attorneys and legal employers on work-life balance and the retention and advancement of women.

Further, Holland & Knight encourages all of its attorneys, including its women lawyers, to be active leaders in professional and civic organizations, and good citizens of the communities in which they live. This commitment is demonstrated through our support of the Holland & Knight Charitable Foundation and localized efforts to assist organizations that help women in need. At the professional level, the Women’s Initiative supports organizations such as the National Association of Women Lawyers, which devotes itself to the interests of women lawyers and their families; Catalyst, which promotes the advancement of women in the workplace, and the National Women’s Law Center, which strives to protect and advance the progress of girls and women in virtually every aspect of their lives.