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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At my wife's firm she made partner with two kids under 4 years old.  I work full time also 40+ hours a week, but I travel rarely and my schedule is more regular so I do daycare pickup and drop off every day.

In her practice group there are 3 other partners that I can think of in similar situations, that made partner with small children and have husbands that work full time as well, but mostly in more regular tech/government/consulting type jobs.

Most of the senior female associates and counsel have children as well.  The typical pattern that I see is:

1) Graduate law school
2) work at a firm for a few years, and get married
3) Have kids when you are a 5-7 year and established in your practice area.
4) Make counsel
5) A few years later make partner[/quote]

Clearly you have a very unrepresentative  view of biglaw or your wife is at a smaller or boutique firm.  Women still make up a small fraction of equity partners.

During my time in biglaw, I saw the following types of women partners with kids.

1. Women who had kids before law school and  kids were older by time they got to firm (usually law second career);
2.  Women who had another family member stay home with kids, usually a dad or grandparent.
3.  Women whose dh also worked, Jad full time help and were always trying to be a reduced hours partner, while never actually working reduced hours.
4.  Women who made partner before having kids and then left for government or in house when they had kids.

most  of the women I knew with kids left before being promoted, and  about half of the women who were promoted to partner never had kids.[/quote]

So now the goal posts have changed to equity partner?  My wife is a partner at a top-40 firm.  [/quote]

That is what op is asking about.  Much easier to make nonequity partner ( I did) and the demands are different.[/quote]

DP: OP doesn't use the word equity anywhere.[/quote]

I think from the context is does seem like OP is talking about equity partner. She is asking about whether what kind of family situation women have who have reached the highest professional level. Otherwise I imagine she would have specified that she was wondering if non-equity partners have better work life balance. Instead she seems to be asking about "having it all."

OP, my advice to you is that there are no prizes for taking the hardest road. My friends who are lawyers who are the happiest are those who went in-house or to the gov't. I work closely with a lot of lawyers at trade associations. They do really interesting work and can be very well-paid. [/quote]

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