In the early 1970s, when Norma Shapiro, who would later become the first female federal judge within the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, went to her first weekly lunch as a partner at what was then Dechert Price & Rhoads, she was told she could not enter through the front door of the Union League, where the lunch was scheduled to take place.
At the time, the Union League, which had always provided the venue for the weekly lunch for Dechert partners, officially barred women from entering the building, but had an informal policy allowing them in if they would enter through a side door.
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