Lori Cohen didn’t know any lawyers when she was growing up in a blue-collar neighborhood in Boston, but she knew she wanted someday to be a litigator. "To Kill a Mockingbird. A cliché, I know," she says.

As a second-year associate in the commercial litigation practice at her old firm, Alston & Bird, she set her sights on the firm’s medical malpractice litigation practice, for a simple reason—this group tried more cases. Cohen went to the medical malpractice litigation partners and begged to work with them but they refused because she was already assigned to another practice group.

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