Lady Lawyers in the Workplace

Lady Lawyers in the Workplace

Lady Lawyers in the Workplace

It took this lady lawyer two years to convince her law firm to let her try a case in court and even then it was a suit nobody wanted, a multiple sclerosis victim with burns on his buttocks from a heating pad. She was able to receive a winning verdict against the doctor who prescribed the pad even though MS patients lack heat sensitivity shocking her firm and at 37 this lady lawyer is one of the most successful female personal injury lawyers in the country. Considering how she has seven damage awards of more than $1 million under her belt, she was the first woman ever to be accepted into the Inner Circle of Advocates, an exclusive club reserved for powerful plaintiffs' lawyers.

She prefers to engage in some combat and this is why this mother of three wants to do battle in court instead of remaining safely inside an office. You cannot compare her with stereotypical plaintiffs' lawyers like the king of torts or the cowboy hat wearing lawyer known for their booming voices and courtroom theatrics as she is simply too quiet and reserved. There is a traditional image of a trial lawyer and what a successful trial lawyer should be. The fact that she's far from that image is something she knows.

Based from what she said, people will be better off if they just be themselves when in court. Being herself has really paid off not only in dollars but in her unprecedented acceptance into the Inner Circle, which is limited to 100 lawyers. To be a member, an attorney must have brought at least 25 cases to trial and must have won at least one jury award of $1 million or more.

Her husband, also a prominent personal injury lawyer, is also a member of the club with 38 verdicts of more than $1 million. This is an elite group and the members have the privilege of sharing information about various cases not to mention getting to refer lucrative businesses to each other. The Tucson, Arizona lawyer who founded the Inner Circle said that at first, they didn't want to take her in because she's a woman. Eventually, her being a tough and sharing lawyer is what got her in.

It has only been in the past three years that members knew of women who qualified and so this group that was founded in 1972 does not discriminate against women. There was no barrier; there are just very few women who do this kind of work. In this case, you have a very tough, mean business to deal with. Although more women are becoming personal injury trial lawyers, this area of law is still hard to break into for them.

Here, socialization is involved. The courtroom is very much a battle ground in a sense that it's very much like organized sport in that you have a clear adversarial relationship, some of which will continue after the fight is over. Dealing with that on-going fight is the tough part for women.

It is a challenge for women to get an opportunity to engage in this line of work because of the reluctance of the male dominated firms. A matter of receiving cases is success. It needed two years for her firm to give her the case that nobody would take.

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