Sherilyn Scully hears students at Quinnipiac University School of Law discussing topics she never broached as a law school student in the mid-1980s. “Work-life balance” is a phrase that never worked its way into the on-campus discourse back then, she said – if the term even existed at all.
But in 2007, many law students approach their future profession as another element of their lives, not an all-consuming pursuit that defines them completely. For them, the escalating salaries for first-year associates at large law firms are not siren songs, but warning signals that this is a world of strict billable hour requirements and high attrition rates.
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