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BILLABLE HOURS IN 6-MINUTE INCREMENTS

Prior to becoming a photographer, I practiced law for many years. I graduated from law school just as women were entering the legal profession in large numbers. Armed with law degrees—and dressed in tweed suits, silk blouses, and bow ties—we marched into corporate firms, eager to make our mark.


Establishing ourselves within those firms, however, proved far more difficult than we had imagined. Many of our male colleagues had little idea how to share the workplace with women attorneys. They didn’t know

whether to treat us as mothers, sisters, or girlfriends. Behind the firms’ public façades of camaraderie and competence, office life teemed with tension and drama, intensified by the relentless grind of long hours.

In Billable Hours in 6-Minute Increments, I take a humorous look back at my first job as an attorney in a large New York law firm.

Copyright © 2025 Robin Dahlberg

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