women lawyers

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Mind tryst

1992
The survival instincts of a divorced Los Angeles lawyer are tested to the limits when she moves to Colorado and meets a man with a mysterious past.

Belva Lockwood

equal rights pioneer
2009
A biography of United States attorney, politician, educator, and author Belva Lockwood, that chronicles her struggles to receive an education and law degree and her run for president with the Equal Rights Party.

Plain truth

2000
Philadelphia defense attorney Ellie Hathaway, unsatisfied with the course of her career and personal life, leaves her job for an open-ended stay at her great-aunt's home in Paradise, Pennsylvania, arriving just in time to become embroiled in the case of a young, unmarried Amish woman accused of killing her newborn baby.

On the street where you live

2001
Feeling a need for stability after her divorce and pursuit by a stalker, criminal defense attorney Emily Graham accepts a job with a Manhattan law firm and buys the former family house in New Jersey. When the house is renovated, the corpse of a missing woman turns up along with evidence linked to a family disappearance in 1892.

Plain truth

a novel
2001
Philadelphia defense attorney Ellie Hathaway, unsatisfied with the course of her career and personal life, leaves her job for an open-ended stay at her great-aunt's home in Paradise, Pennsylvania, arriving just in time to become embroiled in the case of a young, unmarried Amish woman accused of killing her newborn baby.

Marcia Clark

voice for the victims
1997
Biography of Marcia Clark, the lead prosecutor in the O.J. Simpson murder trial, discussing her childhood, education, marriages, and legal career.

City of Angels

2001
Kit Shannon arrives in Los Angeles determined to practice law, but as she struggles against a male-dominated society, she begins to wonder if she is truly following God's will.

America's first woman lawyer

the biography of Myra Bradwell
1993
Chronicles the life and achievement of America's first woman lawyer who was deemed unfit to practice law in 1869 because she was a woman.

Those who love night

2012
Abigail Bukula, a young lawyer in the South African Justice Department, learns that the secret son of her aunt, who died in a massacre years ago, has been arrested by the Zimbabwean government, and held as a political prisoner.

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