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Article: Legal legend's last stand Woman pioneer fights ethics charge
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 23, 1996
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DEDHAM -- When Ann W. Lake graduated from law school 50 years
ago, firms would hire her only as a secretary. So she opened her own
shop in Lowell, started representing women in divorces, made a
business out of being a fighter.
Now 77, Lake should be looking back on a distinguished career as
one of the nation's first and most honored women trial lawyers.
Instead, she finds herself embroiled in one last, rather ugly fight
-- to defend her name against charges of unethical behavior.
Lake appeared this week, in what may be her last day in court, to
answer charges that she acted improperly while tending to the estate
of a friend in 1991. Despite being slowed by a near-fatal heart
attack and ...