Perhaps I should switch my focus to environmental law to combat the strange forces that are making their presence known in my house these days.
HippoGator, Pumpkinhead’s constant companion:
Mutant PlayDoh Creatures:
Next thing you know, Pumpkinhead will have to be renamed BroccoliEar or CheeseFoot (especially if he keeps resisting bathtime!). Sinister stuff, I tell you! I may just have to get Chapin to tie him down in the bed of the truck for a trip around the neighborhood in the rain. 
As a follow-up to the Ms. JD post on whether BigLaw salaries negate incoming associates’ choices/voices on work/life balance, there is another post about to whom partners should be listening when determining the priorities for changes to work/life balance programs and polices. Again, it appears that the focus is more on the bottom line and Per Partner Profits and that young associates are written off as flighty, inexperienced and irrelevant in the debate.
If you can believe it, the partners that I talked to recently claimed that young associates and law students lack the credibility to talk to partners about our generation’s balance concerns and priorities.
I’d love to hear your thoughts on this Ms. JD piece and how you think the legal field will change (or not) in the years to come as we push for rebalancing and time with both our children and parents (and, God forbid, other outside activities).
This week’s roundup is up at A Little Fish in Law School.
The Weekly MILS (Moms In Law School) Roundup is the brainchild of Saramel (retired). It is hosted on a rotating basis at the PT-LawMom and A Little Fish in Law School blogs and is usually posted no later than Monday morning. Next week’s MILS Roundup will be back here.
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