Unusual Program Helps Lawyers Brace for Re-Entry Into Workforce

After spending nearly five years at home raising her daughters, lawyer Yuka Sugar was eager to return to work, but she couldn't take the first step. "I realized I was just fearing the change," she says. The nudge she needed came from a Hastings College of the Law program. The eight-week seminar brings together lawyers who have been absent from the profession a year or more. Members discuss job-hunting tips and interviewing techniques as well as the nuts and bolts of negotiating flexible work arrangements.

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