women lawyers

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women lawyers

A question of choice

1992
The history of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in the United States, in given by the woman lawyer who argued the case.

False fortune

a Pinnacle Peak mystery
2007
Business attorney Hannah Dain, settling back into her law practice at the family firm in Arizona after dumping her boyfriend Cooper for the second time, finds herself in over her head when she agrees to stand in for her sister and fellow attorney Shelby on a lawsuit brought by a local Native American tribe, and somehow ends up appointed the lead counsel in the complicated case.

Killing raven

2003
When the body of a white man is found in a shallow grave in one of the most troubled corners of the Wind River Reservation, Father John O'Malley and his friend, Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden, are drawn into a deadly struggle over vice and virtue.

Myra Bradwell

first woman lawyer
1997
Recounts the life of Myra Bradwell, the nineteenth-century activist, newspaper publisher, businesswoman, and lawyer.

Sleeping beauty

a novel
1991
Anne Garnett returns to Lake Forest for her grandfather's funeral twenty-four years after running away from the family that betrayed her. She is now a high-powered divorce lawyer, discovering her power to confront her Uncle Vince and to love fully.

Plain truth

a novel
2007
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.

Let me call you sweetheart

1996
Prosecutor Kerry McGrath puts her life and that of her daughter in peril when she reopens the case of the "Sweetheart Murder" after noticing that a plastic surgeon has been giving other women the victim's face.

On the street where you live

2002
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.

Down river

2010
While attending a corporate retreat at a remote resort in Alaska, Lisa Vaughn is swept away by the Wild River and, after being rescued by her ex-fianc?, must work with him in order to survive the harsh wilderness--and a killer.

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