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elleng

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1. Damn, glad I didn't see this earlier OR

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Fri Jun 7, 2013, 03:49 PM

Jun 2013

experience same b.s. as Phyllis Richman, Ruth Bader (Ginsburg) and Sandra Day (O'Connor.) (Both of the Justices were refused jobs at law firms for a LONG time after law school.)

MOST glad my Dad encouraged me to attend law school, with not a BIT of the attitude expressed above and by others; what a special man he was. He will have been 100 in November of this year.

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Answering Harvard�s question about her personal life, 52 years later [View all] n2doc Jun 2013 OP

Damn, glad I didn't see this earlier OR elleng Jun 2013 #1

I was once refused a job becasue I might married, have a child, and leave. "But, I protested, SharonAnn Jun 2013 #2

Excellent response. k&r n/t Laelth Jun 2013 #3