The annual Christmas party at the Four Seasons is one of the best in town, and up to 350 employees bring in their kids for another holiday party. Long thought of as stuffy and standoffish, Covington has changed its image to become a place where people not only earn top dollar but enjoy it. Known for its ace litigators, Dickstein provides generous maternity leave, emergency childcare, free life insurance, and profit sharing to both partners and employees. It's a warm, relaxed atmosphere with humane people in charge. You work with stars such as lobbying legend Thomas Boggs and get paid handsomely for the thrill.
Minorities are more prominent than at many firms.
Not many firms have a day each year when the partners serve breakfast to the staff. And not many sponsor a Boy Scouts' Explorers Post for inner-city boys and girls. Piper combines good pay and benefits with rewarding work. And as a Baltimore-based firm, there are plenty of prime Orioles tickets. Lawyers and staff bond in the heat of trials that are treated as personal wars.