First Person
Jan. 1, 2012
Fitting In
A high school dropout recalls her life at a big firm, and why she left.
Growing up in a low-income suburb of the Inland Empire, there were some things I just never experienced: My family never ate out at fancy restaurants. I never learned which fork to use. I never lived outside of California, and I never boarded a plane until after my second year of law school for job interviews.
All that changed in 2002 when I moved to Houston for a job at the largest law firm in Texas. I never thought about what it would be like to move to another st...
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