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.
March 09, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Yuka Sugar didn’t want to be another casualty, never returning to the legal profession after taking a few years off to raise her children.
A third-year trademark associate at Fenwick & West when she decided to have the first of her two girls, Sugar ended up staying home to raise both. After nearly five years at home she was eager to get back, but she couldn’t take the first step.
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