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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He says yes.  I say no.  I work full time and we have a two year old.  [/quote]

The summer my husband interned at a big law firm downtown, he realized that every male partner was on his second wife/family--none of their first marriages had survived. He decided to apply for the DOH honors program instead, because he wanted to be a parent more than he wanted to be a partner. Priorities.[/quote]

My husband is a big law partner and has spent a lot of years at two different very big firms.  I can only think of a few divorced partners at either place.  There are few couples where one of them has not slow-tracked a career when kids came along, usually the wife but in a few cases the husband.  I also know many government lawyers.  A few are divorced, but not the majority.  My anecdotal evidence contradicts your anecdotal evidence.  I have never seen any statistics that show that the divorce rate is higher in big law than in other parts of the profession. [/quote]

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