Clippings: NYT on Law Firms' Changing Attitudes towards Work/Life Balance
Submitted by jessie on 24 January 2008 - 12:31pm.
Lisa Belkin interviews Deborah Epstein Henry and details the recent and rapid transformation of many law firms' policies in today's New York Times article, Who's Cuddly Now? Law Firms.
Among other signs of change, Belkin noted this touching vignette:
A harbinger of changing times might well be the brief filed by the hard-driving white-shoe firm of Weil Gotshal & Manges of New York, asking a judge to reschedule hearings set for Dec. 18, 19, 20 and 27 of last year.
“Those dates are smack in the middle of our children’s winter breaks, which are sometimes the only times to be with our children,” the lawyers wrote.
The judge moved the hearings.
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I saw that article in the
I saw that article in the NYT and that quote. To me it was just another example of the bad old days because you have to give up seeing your kids all year in order to be able to say "please judge let me see them on the winter break".
You should be able to say "can we set a realistic deadline so that none of us have to work until 3am and never see our kids awake for the 3 months prior to the trial?".
Sorry I don't have much patience with the baby steps of the past 10 years and Weil Gotshal trying to make a virtue out of that story when actually it shows how they deprive their attorneys of family time for almost all the year.