Victoria Maroulis Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan. (Photo: Jason Doiy)

Name an important opportunity you got early in your career and what you did with it.

As a junior associate, I was given an opportunity to write and argue an appeal in the second highest appellate court of New York on an important issue regarding presence of lead paint in low-income housing. By the time the argument got finally scheduled, I was nine months pregnant with my first child. I knew the case was of utmost importance to the clients and went ahead with the argument. A few months later, we got a unanimous reversal in our clients' favor.