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Hodgson Russ receives Carol S. Knox Family-Friendly Employer Award

June 20, 2005
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:  Lisa Kane
518.465.2333
lkane@hodgsonruss.com

ALBANY, N.Y. — Hodgson Russ LLP, with offices in the newly completed building at 677 Broadway, received the Carol S. Knox Family-Friendly Employer Award from the Capital District Women's Bar Association. The award was presented at the organization's annual installation dinner at Franklin Plaza in Troy, N.Y., June 16.

Awarded annually, the Carol S. Knox Family-Friendly Employer Award recognizes firms that offer progressive employment policies that allow women and men to meet the requirements of their family lives while succeeding in their careers.

Hodgson Russ's human resources and benefits policies are designed to help foster a healthy and fulfilling family life for attorneys and staff at the Firm. The Firm offers flexible scheduling policies, generous maternity/paternity leave policies, domestic partner benefits, generous sick leave and vacation time, discounted legal services for family members of attorneys and staff, and much more.

Hodgson Russ's maternity/paternity leave of absence policy was groundbreaking when it was revamped in the 1980s, and other law firms have since used the Firm's maternity/paternity leave policy as a model for their own.

With more than 200 attorneys practicing in all major areas of law, Hodgson Russ is the 205th largest law firm headquartered in the United States, as reported by the National Law Journal. It is one of approximately 100 firms in the country listed in America's Greatest Places to Work With a Law Degree. In addition, Hodgson Russ was recently named one of the country's most admired employers by American Employer Digest. Hodgson Russ's Albany office is currently celebrating its 15th anniversary. The Firm, which was established in 1817 and is among the oldest law firms in the U.S., is the only law firm that can count two former U.S. presidents, Millard Fillmore and Grover Cleveland, among its alumni. The six offices of Hodgson Russ are located in Albany, Buffalo, Johnstown, and New York City, New York; Boca Raton, Florida; and Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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