• How Lawyers Can Have a Legal Career and a Family

  • Aug 22 2024
  • Length: 35 mins
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How Lawyers Can Have a Legal Career and a Family

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  • One challenge young lawyers encounter—especially in demanding corporate roles—is starting a family while advancing in their careers. Managing and balancing work and family isn’t something they teach in school. Guest Kimberly “Kim” Maney is a busy, successful in-house corporate attorney for a global corporation. She’s also a mom and a spouse who taught herself how to balance 10-hour days and constant demands from her job while carving out time for family. Raising a family is hard work, everything from coordinating childcare to spending meaningful time with children. And then, later, as kids grow up, there are soccer games, ballet recitals, and vacations. In today’s world of connectivity, it can be too easy to just “take a call” during the family trip to Disney World. You’ll need to develop and communicate boundaries with your coworkers and your organization. Maney shares how she leaned on coworkers who were already parents and even Facebook parent support groups as she learned to create space for family while excelling at her job. Stephen C. Dinkel served as the associate producer on this episode of Young Lawyer Rising.  Resources: Legal Careers of Parents and Child Caregivers: Results and Best Practices from a National Study of the Legal Profession Parenthood Positivity: How to Use Parenthood in the Trajectory of Your Legal Career Parental Leave in the Legal Field: Managing Employee and Employer Expectations Attorneys Make the Case for Equal Parental Leave Balancing Fatherhood and a Legal Career as a Young Lawyer Juggling a Firm and a Family Tips for Balancing a Legal Career and First-Time Motherhood American Bar Association American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division
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