For Breast-Pumping Lawyers, Accommodations Often Fall Short
MothersEsquire, a national group with 3,000 lawyer-moms, is working to improve workplace conditions for nursing mothers.
October 31, 2018 at 03:21 PM
7 minute read
The old saying “Don't cry over spilled milk” doesn't apply when you're a nursing lawyer-mom, using a toilet as a table while pumping your breast milk during your practice group's annual retreat.
Using the restroom as a makeshift baby-food kitchen wasn't labor and employment litigator Elise Elam's first choice. She was relegated to the loo only after staff in the retreat facility offered a room with a nonclosing door that left a gap where she could see the speaker talking to all her colleagues. The toilet stall was private, at least. After she finished pumping and started to gather her gear, that's when it happened: Elam's milk spilled all over the toilet and floor. She acknowledges — she cried.
“It was stressful,” explained Elam, a staff attorney at Frost Brown Todd in Cincinnati.
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