1. How would you describe your firm's identity in the legal marketplace?

2. How does your firm describe itself in firm brochures and marketing material?

3. How do people in and outside your firm describe your firm in conversation?

4. What is the firm's stated values with respect to work-family values and options?

5. How do people in the workplace describe the partners who are powerful? Who in the firm is held up as a role model or as representative of the firm's identity?

6. What is the translation of your firm's identity with respect to family-work options?

7. Describe the professional profile of partners and associates considered by your firm to be especially dedicated, committed or valued by the firm. Describe the family-work profile(s) of these attorneys.

8. Does your firm offer more than one career path and timetable for success? If yes, do those who have alternative career paths feel as valued by the firm as those who follow the dominant path? Do you believe the firm sufficiently values alternative career paths and those who choose them?

9. What is the firm's actual/enacted attitude regarding family-work balance and professional commitment?

10. What are your feelings and attitudes about combining a legal career and family commitments?