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[quote=Anonymous]I'm a female attorney with kids.

I have two kids. One when I was an AUSA (challenging but my boss was incredibly supportive and oddly managing my own litigation meant I managed my own deadlines). I was recruited out to biglaw and realized I was pregnant with my second. It. Was. A. Shitshow.  The amount of discrimination was insane. People are so cut throat and any way to get "more" by knocking out competition is the way things go in biglaw. It's a zero-sum game.

I got very, very lucky. I had a client who loved my work and when I took maternity leave asked me to go in house instead of going back to the firm I've been in house for nearly a decade since and with elementary kids work from home full time with one week a quarter where I travel to headquarters for meetings.

Honestly, the big law industry is trash. I am very lucky but it's just rife with discrimination, pointless deadlines and fire drills by micromanaging bosses.

The only happy women who are mothers I know are women who are feds or working in-house. Even then it can be trash if your boss is awful. YMMV.[/quote]

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