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: It's (Barely) LegalYoung Female Lawyers Play by Own Rules
By Glen Ashman
Even 20 years ago, few women managed to combine family and success at a big firm. But today's middle-aged lawyers pushed to make it happen. They worked nonstop, staying up half the night with a brief in one hand and a crying baby in the other, and they succeeded. But today's younger female lawyers prefer to take a different route. "You don't need to work, work, work and then have a family," says 33-year-old Erica Leatham. So she quit her large firm and, with some colleagues and friends, formed her own firm.
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Full post as published by It's (Barely) Legal on January 23, 2008 (boomark / email).
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