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Many years later, as a young attorney who had held a prestigious clerkship on the Supreme Court, older partners at the law firm where she worked would assume that she was a legal secretary and “inquire pleasantly how long I had been with the firm and which of his colleagues I assisted.”

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She wrote in Lazy B that she “felt poorly prepared compared to the other freshmen,” but she was admitted to a program that allowed her to start law school at Stanford in her senior year, as one of only four women in her class. One California-based firm, Gibson Dunn, did offer O’Connor a job – as a legal secretary.

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