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One California-based firm, Gibson Dunn, did offer O’Connor a job – as a legal secretary. In her interview with the Harvard Business Review after leaving the court, she said that “[i]t’s good if you can get agreement among your colleagues” when drafting opinions.

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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2022

Sandra Day O’Connor, first woman on the Supreme Court, dies at 93

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