During her second and third year at Yale Law School in the late 1990s, Kim Rinehart wasn’t just thinking about which clerkship or law firm job she would land. She was focused on helping New Haven County residents, especially single mothers, get out of poverty and build sustainable careers.
Rinehart and classmate Jessica Sager realized that child care was an important component of any such effort. “I was most passionate about the idea of moving someone from poverty to a career without having to truly sacrifice their family,” said Rinehart, now a litigation partner in the New Haven office of Wiggin and Dana. “I was intrigued about whether this could happen at all.”
