Five Steps to Navigate Networking as a New Mom

Your life changes forever when you bring a baby into this world. As a new mom and young lawyer, I can say from experience that returning to the office after maternity leave is an adjustment.

Being fully committed to both your legal career and your new family is a challenge that requires organization, discipline, and daily action. Committing to daily action ignites passion and allows working moms to find balance and strive toward achieving both a successful legal practice and a rewarding family life.

Every lawyer knows that long-term career success depends largely on networking and establishing meaningful relationships. My desire to both succeed as a young lawyer and provide for my family has driven me to evolve as a lawyer-mom and become the most efficient form of myself. The days of after-work cocktails and evening networking dinners have been exchanged for suppers with my family. Instead, I have found other ways to develop lasting professional relationships and, most importantly, I have committed myself to taking daily steps towards achieving that goal.

The following five networking steps will empower busy new moms.

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This article appeared in the 2022 issue of WILS Connect, a publication of the Women in Law Section of the New York State Bar Association.