Article: How they got there: Four women talk about becoming the managing partner

How they got there: Four women talk about becoming the managing partner

* Elsie L. Reid of Furey, Doolan & Abell LLP said it was a "very easy thing" for the firm to make her managing partner. In 1977, she was the first associate the founders hired; later, she was the first E. William Furey, Devin J. Doolan and W. Shepherdson Abell promoted to partner.

By 1998, Doolan and Abell had been passing the managing partner job back and forth and it was "time to rotate the burden around," especially since the firm was growing, Reid said. These days, the 13 partners of the firm vote on managing partner every three years. Reid, a land use and zoning lawyer, is up for re-election next week.

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