City solicitors who have gone back PT - does it work?

[Murtette]

Hi

I'm coming to the end of my mat leave from my job as a solicitor in a transactional dept in the city and am thinking of asking if I can go back part time. Have any of you done this and, if so, does it work or do you just end up checking your blackberry and doing con calls from home on your day(s) off? How late do you end up staying in the office on the evening before your day(s) off? Are you still expected to work weekends? And how do you arrange childcare to cover this?

To a large extent, I personally don't see how you can do transactional work successfully on a part time basis so I'd be really interested to hear any success stories.

TIA

If you shared a nanny it wouldn't be so weird - she would have her other charge to look after.

I would say, in your application for flexible working, that you have full time child care (if that's what you do) to ensure that client care is not compromised. This is so much stronger than offering to look at your Blackberry with one hand while you push the swing with the other....