Law Students

Justice Ginsburg Visits New England Law Boston, Recounts Career Roadblocks

By Anonymous

Justice Ginsburg helped New England Law Boston celebrate its 100th year by speaking to a group of 180 law students last week.

Ginsburg recelled some of the challenges she faced as a woman in the profession, reported The Boston Globe:

Ginsburg said rising through the ranks in a legal profession that was almost the exclusive domain of men was challenging. She said that after she graduated from Columbia Law School in 1959, where she was at the top of her class, "there was not a single law firm in the city of New York that would give me a job."

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Full post as published by Ms. JD on March 18, 2009 (boomark / email).