When people ask me how I knew it was time to leave Biglaw, I often tell the following story: I was a fifth-year associate, struggling with work-life balance in a practice area that did not inspire me to get out of bed in the mornings.
She confided in me the nightmare experience of solitary confinement - reading all day, eating alone, and speaking to no one. As an associate at a 500-plus attorney firm, when I realized how much I was relating to my client's descriptions of solitary confinement, I knew I had come to a breaking point.
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