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Degree in hand, O'Connor collided head-on with the legal profession's prejudice against women: "I interviewed with law firms in Los Angeles and San Francisco, but none had ever hired a woman before as a lawyer, and they were not prepared to do so." Among the...
Nothing dramatizes the changes that have taken place in the past 108 years more than the nomination of Sandra O'Connor to the bench where Bradley once sat. Today some 50,000 women are going beyond their "paramount mission and destiny" by pursuing careers as lawyers. They represent about...
Yet women are still "the foot soldiers of the profession," says Eleanor Holmes Norton, former chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. "You don't find many in the upper reaches of bench or bar." Recent studies have shown that women account for only 2% of the partners in...
The main difficulty, most female attorneys agree, is that the boom in women law graduates has essentially come about since 1970, when women accounted for only 2.8% of the profession. Thus there has not been enough time to yield a sufficient pool of experienced practitioners. "You can't appoint...
Breuer received many of the highest honors the profession can bestow in his half-century-long career, including the gold medal of the American Institute of Architects in 1978. In May the G.F.I. Knoll International Corporation sponsored a conference in his honor at the GSD.