The legal profession lost one of its brightest stars in January, and she wasn’t a lawyer. As The National Law Journal this week focuses on Outstanding Women Lawyers, it is fitting to remember Martha “Marty” Fay Africa as one of the women who have made a major impact on the legal profession.
She was indeed “a giant in the legal placement field,” as a story of her passing in NLJ affiliate The Recorder described her. She placed general counsel at such institutions as the University of California, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Bank of the West, among many others, and helped to create what has become the world’s largest legal recruiting firm.
