Clara Shortridge Foltz who pioneered public defending was the very first female lawyer to arrive to the west cost at the time. (lajewishlawyer.com)
His mother, one of the city's first female lawyers, once worked in a settlement house and chaired the Legal Aid Society and the New York City Committee on Adoptions. (gse.harvard.edu)
Perveen Mistry, the daughter of a respected Zoroastrian family, has just joined her father's law firm, becoming one of the first female lawyers in India. (bookbrowse.com)