Psychology Today | 07.08.2026 04:11
It began decades ago when a woman in her first year of law school wandered into a guest lecture about a newly emerging field called employment law. It wasn’t labor law, and it wasn’t wage‑and‑hour law; it was something new, something still forming, something focused on the relationship between employers and employees. The idea lodged itself in her mind. She enrolled in the first employment law class her school ever offered, went home, and told her husband—then a young associate finally earning a decent salary—that he and his firm ought to develop a plaintiff‑side employment law practice. He admired her conviction, but he had no authority to make such a thing happen, and the litigation partner he reported to was a named partner, respected, formidable, and not easily persuaded to try something untested.
