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[quote=Anonymous]SOrry OP and all the people with an agenda.... but the view from the inside of biglaw..... is a lot of dual high earning spouses. Gone are the days of sahm wives of big law partners.  That was 20 years ago.

The two old timer heads of our practice group (60+) have sahws.

Running through the other partners: 
- me (mid 40s) with DH with high powered job
- my partner mentor (age 62) with FT in-house law wife and kid
- mid 40s man with FT in-house law wife and kid
- mid 40s man with FT govt lawyer wife and kid
- mid 50s man with FT doctor wife and kids
- mid 30s man with PT doctor wife and kids
- mid 30s woman with FT doctor husband and kids
- mid 40s man with sahm wife and 3 kids
- mid 50s woman with husband with regular FT job that i don't know what he does, plus kids
- mid 40s woman and a husband with regular FT job and i don't know what he does, plus kid
- mid 40s man with wife with "big" job in nonprofit and kid
- mid 50s man with sahw and kids
- and a few young women in their mid 30s who are single

That's who i can think of off hand. The men with sahws are rarities, and almost unheard of for those under 55.  I will say most of us chose to have just 1 kid - makes it a lot easier.  I don't know anyone in my group who ever had a live in nanny (but i can't claim to know what they all did years ago), and i don't think any of them with school age kids had nannies past K.   There's a lot more flexibility in big law than 20 years ago, and everyone expects partners - men and women - to come and go for family needs within reason.

I see a lot of men in biglaw check out from the family - but that's a personality defect and not a necessity of the job. But I see an equal number of sahws of biglaw partners who feel the need to rationalize quitting their own jobs, when it really wasn't needed.  If you want 3 kids, then yeah sure - it's hard to do that with a big law partner plus FT working spouse. But less than 3 and it's really common for dual working couples. [/quote]

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