Recent statistics, as reported by The Legal, indicate there has been no movement in the percentage of women lawyers practicing in this state’s 100 largest law firms in the last 10 years. Undoubtedly, a confluence of factors contributes to this sobering fact, which is the subject of another article completely. Many articles in this category often focus on the reason why women leave the profession. I’d like to offer a tiny glimpse of why I chose to stay.
I have heard many people tell me that I can’t have both, being a full-time mom and lawyer, that on either side, someone will be short-changed. However, I can precisely recall the events that led me to choose the practice of law and motherhood. It was the first day of February when I arrived at the office, having just dropped my then-3-year-old off at preschool and my 13-month-old at daycare. The hours for January had been posted and the blank spaces for four missed days out of a long billing month stared back at me in horror. Those days were not spent on a beach in Belize, but rather tending to one of my sick children.
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