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Administrative/Regulatory

Jun. 30, 2006

Legal Field Struggles to Retain Women

SAN FRANCISCO - It's been called the "opt-out revolution" - an alarming trend of highly qualified women ditching the career track to be stay-at-home moms.

By Anna Oberthur
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      SAN FRANCISCO - It's been called the "opt-out revolution" - an alarming trend of highly qualified women ditching the career track to be stay-at-home moms.
      While such a female exodus from corporate life is just a theory, it's a fact that women are leaving the nation's top law firms before they make partner, in spite of joining in nu...

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