In the Game: The Highs and Lows of a Trailblazing Trial Lawyer by Garrity, Peggy

In the Game: The Highs and Lows of a Trailblazing Trial Lawyer (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781631521058)

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In the Game: The Highs and Lows of a Trailblazing Trial Lawyer by Garrity, Peggy

In the Game: The Highs and Lows of a Trailblazing Trial Lawyer

$17.95
In the Game: The Highs and Lows of a Trailblazing Trial Lawyer by Garrity, Peggy

In the Game: The Highs and Lows of a Trailblazing Trial Lawyer

$17.95
Format: Paperback
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Peggy Garrity began her life as a small-town Irish Catholic girl in the Midwest. Initially convent-bound, she became determined to escape a life like her mother's, and in the mid-1970s she reinvented herself as a high-profile Los Angeles trial lawyer and single mother of four. At a time when there were virtually no women solo practitioners, she represented David against Goliath--and risked it all in the process. Including compelling courtroom dramas featuring would-be presidential assassin Sara Jane Moore, celebrities Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, and Cheryl Tiegs, and some of Los Angeles's most notorious murder cases, In the Game is the groundbreaking story of a thrill-seeking solo trial lawyer--and single mother--who beat the odds at a time when working mothers, especially those in male-dominated professions like the law, faced the gauntlet of discrimination.

Author: Peggy Garrity
ISBN-10: 1631521055
ISBN-13: 9781631521058
Publisher: She Writes Press
Language: English
Published: 08/09/2016
Pages: 252
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.70d
By Peggy Garrity
By Peggy Garrity
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Peggy Garrity grew up in the Mississippi River hamlet of Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, population 6,000--a town with two Catholic churches, four Catholic schools, and fifty bars and pubs. After attending night law school for five years and having three babies, she was admitted to the California State Bar in December 1975, after which she launched a solo practice. She retired from the full-time practice of law in December 2004, but remains committed to the law through her writing, consulting, legal commentary, and handling a few select civil rights cases. Garrity also teaches yoga and meditation privately. The LA Times published her op-ed about the Halliburton rape cases, "About that Day In Court," in 2008. Garrity is a doting grandmother of six.

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