If your spouse was a big law counsel/senior associate & did not make partner the first time up, then

[Anonymous]

If your spouse was a big law counsel/senior associate and did not make partner the first time up, then did your spouse leave their law firm or look for another job while trying to make partner for the second and final time (up and out)? If your spouse did not make partner, then in what ways did you support your spouse afterwards? Did your spouse realize that there is more to life than big law? Did your spouse find a job they are happy with in government, in an in-house counsel position, or in a small or midsize firm?

[Anonymous]

...moved to anothr firm where he did make partner. But in retrospect, a career move might have been better. Others in his group are now General Counsels.