Women on the track to becoming a partner at a firm would often forgo their personal lives for their careers, but today’s woman is redefining the traditional path to partner, according to Deborah Epstein Henry, founder and president of Law and Reorder and Flex-Time Lawyers.

She said women in the legal profession want to have a family as well as a career, but the challenges of balancing the two in new ways can often create a problem for the rising generation of lawyers.