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The New Lawyer Supplement

May 19, 2010

Feeling Wheeling

Orrick is luring law firm graduates to the tiny West Virginia hamlet of Wheeling, W.Va., with a promise of stimulating work and better quality of life. Can this latest model of staff attorney succeed?

By Robert Iafolla

Daily Journal Staff Writer

After seven years as a litigator for Jones Day, Heather M. Boylan Clark was facing an all-too-common dilemma. Although she loved her work, she found it increasingly difficult to balance it against her responsibilities as a mother.

Clark looked for a year before eventually discovering an ideal solution in the most unlikely of places: an unassuming blue-collar town at the foothills of ...

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