Not just in big firms, but the same applies to the solo practitioner. Women can’t have it all at simultaneously (sequentially perhaps).
Bosses want the job done, Judges want to get their dockets moving and they will not wait, clients want their cases worked on, employees want to be paid. Landlord wants the rent paid. Kids need to be cared and provided for.
Gotta make a choice. Most choose their kids.
I chose my kids, meaning that I can only take certain types of cases. I have accepted that I will likely not be making a lot of money like some other lawyers. When my kids get older and independent, I will explore other areas of the law.
Not only kids, but personal and family circumstances (disease, divorce, death) added to kids will make thing even the nastier. . . . And a lawyer sees herself become the kind of lawyer she did not plan to be.
