Early in her career at Littler Mendelson’s Atlanta office, Dionysia Johnson-Massie knew she wanted to raise a family. She also knew that women like her still faced an age-old bias: At many firms, she says, lawyers wanting to have children often were not considered “partnership material.”
But at Littler Mendelson, she found a firm that responded to her need for a balanced life. An African-American woman with one child and a baby on the way, Johnson-Massie embodies the strides that many Atlanta firms have made to diversify their ranks of partners and associates, recognizing quality-of-life issues can be the best attractors and retainers of women and minorities.
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