Among her former female law school classmates, Day Pitney employment litigation associate Stacy Smith Walsh is more and more an anomaly: going on her eighth year since graduating from Cornell Law School, she is still practicing at a large law firm.
Walsh knows plenty of other women lawyers who, like her, continue to successfully climb the BigLaw career ladder. But she also knows "many, many" who have left such jobs behind. The latter group is getting larger all the time. Only a "handful" have left the legal profession altogether, she said; Most of them are utilizing their law degrees at smaller law firms, corporate legal departments or in the public sector. In other words, most want to continue practicing law, they just want to do it some place else.
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