WOMAN LAWYER

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19124, 19 September 1936, Page 7

WOMAN LAWYER

MURDER CASE EXPERIENCE

PRACTICE IN CHICAGO

SYDNEY, Sept. 7

Miss Matilda Fernbergj formerly assistant corporation counsel, Chicago (Illinois), who arrived in Sydney yesterday by the Monterey, was the .first woman to matriculate'at the Yale Law School.

She said that, she had been practising for 14 years. A protegee of Mr. Clarence Darrow, she practised in the criminal jurisdiction at the beginning of her career, and in the first year defended six men who had been charged with murder.

She retired from. Criminal Court practice, and was appointed assistant counsel to the Chicago Corporation, her duties being to defend the city iii personal injury and similar cases. At present she is in '{general practice, dealing with cases such as divorce, chancery, and mortgage foreclosures.

Divorce was easily procurable in Lhe county of Illinois, she said. They did not advertise that, as did Reno, iMorida and other parts of the world, but divorces could be obtained in one day.

Miss Feriioerg said tuat she, had booKeu her passage to Spam, but, because of the civil war 111 thai country, she Jecided to visit Australia. She said that in tne United States innumerable women were Federal Bench judges. "Women no longer grow old as before," added Miss bend.erg. "They tress better, care for themselves, and are n better health."