You'll have to decide how much time to devote to your job and how much to yourself and your family. Sustaining the two-career family will become a challenging logistical puzzle. As you confront the questions of how much money and prestige really mean to you, you may have to choose between doing good and doing well. As you make these choices, please remember that you went into law for the freedom that it would give you. You did not spend all these years building your resume so that you could be unhappy in your work and absent from your home.
Work is important, but there are so many more important things than work.
Your carelessness or indifference will carry real consequences for your clients and yourselves. Matters of public importance, joy and heartbreak, and real money, not to mention your hard-earned reputation, will be on the line whenever you open your mouth or sign your name. For all the love and support that is arrayed around you today and that you will continue to receive, you will find that there are some decisions that only you understand and that only you can make. More and more, you will come to believe in yourselves. After years of seeking wisdom from others, you will find it in yourselves.