My favorite movie growing up was called “Adam’s Rib,” a classic Tracy/Hepburn film where Katherine Hepburn plays a cantankerous defense lawyer at the trial of a suspected murderer, and Spencer Tracy, who was also Hepburn’s husband in the film, plays the prosecutor. The fiery courtroom scenes where Hepburn and Tracy duke it out made me think that women trial lawyers were common, even back in 1949.
But in reality, women lawyers who first-chair major commercial trials are a rare species indeed, and all-female trial teams are practically on the endangered species list.
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