Law: Women in Law

When Portia stood up in the court of Venice as Mercy's high advocate, her pallor framed in a musty periwig, her slimness swaddled in the stiff robes of Justice, she had no right to be there. She had never been admitted to the bar. The publicity given to the admittance of Miss Susan Brandeis (see above) to practice before the U. S. Supreme Court directed interest last week to the history of women in the Law.

At the Bar. Belva Ann Lockwood was the first woman admitted to practice before the U. S....

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