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Comparing pregnancies to illnesses and questioning the necessity of a 90-day-plus leave were boneheaded moves for the Shook Hardy partner placed on leave over opposing counsel's continuance request, but they shouldn't make him the poster boy for bad male behavior.
July 26, 2018 at 06:11 PM
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The original version of this story was published on The American Lawyer
We all know that lawyer-moms face condescension and bias in the legal profession, but must we throw hapless men under the bus to show women our support?
I’m talking about what happened to Paul Reid, a partner at Shook, Hardy & Bacon’s Miami office, who objected to a request by opposing counsel, who’s pregnant, for continuance in a trial.
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