Memoirs or Biographies of Female Trial Lawyers
October 16, 2023 6:35 AM Subscribe
There are lots of books about/by dude trial lawyers. Not so many by women or about women. I am open to all nonfiction (note: no fiction please as it skews towards "feisty workaholic woman lawyer finally breaks down and lets herself enjoy romance." Ugh.)
There was a new yorker article about Judy Clarke a few years back that was phenomenal. Anything like that would really fit the bill. I am not into prosecutors but could make exceptions.
Thanks!
Best answer: Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality, by Tomiko Brown-Nagin. (gift link,WaPo article about the book: A Black lawyer who dismantled barriers, for herself and many others) {Washington History Seminar w/Brown-Nagin, clip}
"In Defense of Women: Memoirs of an Unrepentant Advocate," Nancy Gertner's memoir. {Gertner discussing career, brief clip}
Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster (Eunice Hunton Carter, penned by her grandson, Stephen L. Carter)
Brooke at the Bar: Inside Our Legal System, by Brooke Wunnicke
An Unforeseen Life, memoir by Mary Ann Connell
Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers ("legal historian Jill Norgren curates the oral histories of one hundred extraordinary American women lawyers who changed the profession of law")
Woman Lawyer (the story of Clara Foltz, the first woman admitted to the California Bar)
(Famous Female Lawyers Who Shaped The Legal Industry timeline has other leads.)
posted by Iris Gambol at 11:20 AM on October 16, 2023 [2 favorites]
"In Defense of Women: Memoirs of an Unrepentant Advocate," Nancy Gertner's memoir. {Gertner discussing career, brief clip}
Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster (Eunice Hunton Carter, penned by her grandson, Stephen L. Carter)
Brooke at the Bar: Inside Our Legal System, by Brooke Wunnicke
An Unforeseen Life, memoir by Mary Ann Connell
Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers ("legal historian Jill Norgren curates the oral histories of one hundred extraordinary American women lawyers who changed the profession of law")
Woman Lawyer (the story of Clara Foltz, the first woman admitted to the California Bar)
(Famous Female Lawyers Who Shaped The Legal Industry timeline has other leads.)
posted by Iris Gambol at 11:20 AM on October 16, 2023 [2 favorites]
I heard Marcia Clark (of the OJ trial fame) being interviewed on the radio maybe a few years ago or so. She was promoting a book that, if I remember correctly, was along these lines. I don't remember the title, and I haven't read it, but I remember the interview being surprisingly enjoyable.
Looking her up on Amazon now, it looks like she writes a lot of fiction, but I am pretty confident that this was nonfiction, and autobiography (at least in the sense that it was about things she was involved in). Maybe it's Without a Doubt?
posted by Flunkie at 12:04 PM on October 16, 2023
Looking her up on Amazon now, it looks like she writes a lot of fiction, but I am pretty confident that this was nonfiction, and autobiography (at least in the sense that it was about things she was involved in). Maybe it's Without a Doubt?
posted by Flunkie at 12:04 PM on October 16, 2023
Then Comes Marriage is attorney Roberta Kaplan's memoir of the case that brought down the Defense of Marriage Act.
posted by unreadyhero at 9:49 PM on October 16, 2023
posted by unreadyhero at 9:49 PM on October 16, 2023
There is a biography of Rose Heilbron by her daughter. Amazon link, more details.
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