Our job as lawyers is all about communication – verbal and nonverbal. The following article was written from the perspective of interviewing for a job, but the tips could easily be translated to your practice.
Jennifer Garner made news when she accepted an award at Elle Magazine's Women in Hollywood event last week and spoke about the double standard between working mothers and working fathers in Hollywood, in a way that is reflected in our industry as well.
For eight years, I worked as a full-time litigation attorney at a medium sized law firm in downtown Fort Worth while raising my three small children. It felt like a disaster. Every day I felt like the obligations of my existence were busting at the seams as I tried unsuccessfully to balance the demands of being an attorney, a wife, and a mother. About two years ago, I left firm-life for what I thought would be a utopian existence of being a full-time mother and a part-time attorney. My image of paradise was almost immediately shattered by reality. Instead, I found myself juggling the demands of being a full-time mother and a part-time attorney.
