Biglaw, Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Thinks Biglaw Firms Have A Long Way To Go In Terms Of Work/Life Balance

What more can Biglaw firms do to please Justice Ginsburg -- and their associates?

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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Firms don’t seem to be moving that fast to be flexible. [Men and women] should get together with each other and decide ‘what we want’ [and] make it known and illustrate by example that you can have a home life and a work life.

— Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, offering words of disapproval for Biglaw firms that haven’t become more accommodating for lawyers who want a “balanced life,” during a conversation with former U.S. solicitor general Theodore Olson before the D.C. chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel.

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