Cynthia Lange was fully prepared to discuss her plans for a family when she interviewed for an associate position at immigration firm Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy in 1986. Professors at her alma mater, Southwestern Law School, had warned female students that hiring partners would ask them outright if they intended to get pregnant and leave.
But name partner Peter Loewy never asked about future children during that interview, said Lange, now a partner in the firm’s Silicon Valley office and member of its executive committee. Once she had the job, Loewy, now senior counsel at the firm, offered her the same opportunities as male colleagues and championed her promotion to partner after just five years.
