Butler Snow LLP has strengthened its attorney and staff benefits by partnering with Cariloop, an employer-sponsored caregiver support platform aimed at working parents and those who are caregivers for their parents, Cariloop announced Thursday.
The firm is offering Cariloop for no additional cost to its 400 attorneys and legal professionals across 26 offices in the U.S. and London, according to the company. The platform offers guidance and resources, such as expert coaching and a paid caregiver provider network.
Since 2012, Cariloop has focused on supporting caregivers. Michael Walsh, chief executive officer and co-founder of Cariloop, told Law360 Pulse on Thursday that the platform is designed to help reduce the time that caregivers spend on navigating various caregiving issues.
For Butler Snow employees who sign up, Cariloop offers a dedicated coach, help with insurance matters, medication tracking system and keeps events and providers organized in one space, Walsh said.
“Most caregivers, when they find themselves in this moment in time with a loved one, they end up trying to figure all these things out on their own, and that just takes a lot of time and it creates a lot of stress,” Walsh said. “That’s exactly what we’re here to do is to eliminate as much of that as possible. So the platform we built has been specifically designed to do that.”
Rance Sapen, the firm’s chief operating officer, told Law360 Pulse on Thursday that he’s excited about the partnership and hopes this resource can help the growing number of caregivers for spouses, children and parents.
“It’s really difficult to handle all of the needs that people have and handle their work volume or responsibilities at work, so anything that we can do to help them manage those things better or give an option that may help them with the needs they may have at home, we are going to be open to that,” Sapen said. “It looks like this is going to be a great tool that we can provide for our people.”
Sapen said that this is a new platform for the firm.
“We tried to provide flexibility and help where we could, but we really didn’t have a program so to speak that would be consistent for everyone and we didn’t have a way to respond to the various needs that were coming up,” Sapen said. “We did try to address it. It was just more informal.”
