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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Agree. Actually, I think there were more divorced govt attys that we knew compared to firms. Probably because the govt hours were terrible (trial attys at DOJ), and the money was equally bad. At least at the firm the money made up for the hours, and you could actually afford to live closer in and outsource help.[/quote]

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