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Chief
It’s challenging to get rehired. I would say the bigger challenge is that once your family has shifted it’s division of labor, expectations, habits, etc to reflect you at home full time, extricating yourself from that after 2 years is nearly impossible. It’s more sustainable to build a part time schedule that works.
Not me, but a woman at my firm took 5+ years off. She came back at around the class year she was when she left, I think. I wouldn’t say it seems common, but not impossible.
I went in house two years and came back to biglaw.
Ya the more common/easier route seems to be either leaving for another legal job that’s much less demanding for a few years or reducing your hours expectations as much as possible. At our firm I think some people have gone as low as 60%
Chief
I think my comment was confusing—I meant to say I‘ve never worked anything close to FT on a PT schedule. It’s always worked out and been clearly the best option for me.
The people I’ve seen do this took long leaves of absences, many years, which made it much easier to come back to same biglaw job. I think they took a class cut when they returned. And I assume they stayed in some contact w the firm/heads of group while on leave
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Yes. Research returnship programs through OnRamp, the iReLaunch conference, and most major banks.
Also consider temp or contract substantive legal work (ie. not doc review), which can help you build up your skills,references, and networks.