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Article: Women of counsel. (increase in women lawyers in Los Angeles law firms)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- February 9, 1998
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MORE WOMEN ARE GRADUATING FROM LAW SCHOOLS THAN EVER BEFORE, THEIR RANKS ARE SWELLING AT LOCAL FIRMS AND ON THE BENCH - AND THEY ARE HANDLING SOME OF LA.'S HIGHEST-PROFILE CASES
L.A. women are making their mark on L.A. law.
There are the high-profile types like Gloria Allred, Marcia Clark and Leslie Abramson who long have been household names.
There also are upper-echelon players within the profession itself, such as Margaret Morrow, first woman president of the California Bar Association, who has been nominated to fill a vacancy on the federal District Court bench, and Patricia Glaser, a star corporate litigator who won a multimillion-dollar verdict ...