I read a recent article in the ABA Journal by Susan Blakey, "Are women lawyers paying enough attention to upward mobility?" This article brought me back to the time when I started my professional life and believed I had to choose between a career and a family. It was a period of disillusionment for me as an attorney and young mother. I had hoped we as a profession had moved long past those antiquated notions where women were penalized for having children.