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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DH has been in big law for thirty years.  There was a time before email and blackberries (which were the big change to weekend and evening work) where big law was more family-friendly.  Things changed around 2003-4 with the changing technology and really ramped up from 2005-2020.  That was the worst period.  With the advent of Zoom and the changes of the pandemic, I feel that big law has gotten much less crazy than it was in the mid-2010s.  DH definitely does not ride his associates the way he was coming up.  You cannot make the same demands anymore.  When he was an associate, he pulled all-nighters a couple times and week, worked every weekend, and on all our vacations.  He would get in trouble with the firm for expecting that of his associates today.  Until the pandemic, there was no work from home ever.  I actually really appreciate how things have gotten more humane for big law families post-2020. [/quote]

Lol there was always “work from home” pre-pandemic- but it was work you were expected to do from home on the weekends/nights/holidays. That’s what I find tremendously ironic about law firms fulminating about WFH: they DEPEND on people working from home![/quote]

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