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Originally posted by Spanky
I have to disagree with Will on the fact that you can't assume she has been a victim of discrimination. If she is 61, she had to overcome serious obstacles to get where she is today. Especially in Texas where the old boys network is a strong as ever. I believe those obstacles have been seriously diminshed but there were rock solid when she began her legal career.
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I know well a lady about that age who is just retiring after a very successful career as a litigator (product defense, mostly). She rose to lead a Practice Group and sit on the Board and Management Committee of a large law firm (Amlaw 250) here on the East Coast.
Her stories about some events while she was a summer associate in the early 1970s and a young litigator are just truly remarkable. (Not sexual assault -- just the way the firm and senior partners dealt with women.)
Our local bank (top 30 city by population) would not allow my mother to open her own individual checking account in the mid -1960s.
S_A_M
