Today’s guest blogger is law firm consultant Eve Birnbaum. A former corporate partner at Winston & Strawn, Birnbaum was also the legal director of the corporate practice at Proskauer Rose and global director of legal recruiting at Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy.
She was a fifth-year associate at an elite New York firm who had just returned to work from maternity leave. With a new baby at home, her husband working 24/7 at another top firm, and the echo of “bad mommy” playing in her brain, she had to make a decision: Should she stay or should she go? Should she make the push for partner? And if she made it, would it be worth it? Though she worked directly for one of the senior partners in one of the firm’s major practice niches, nobody ever told her she was a star or on track to make partner.
