Women lawyers.

White Ribbon, Volume 15, Issue 176, 16 February 1910, Page 9

Women lawyers.

Mrs Mary E. Miller, of Chicigo, hat i.ist earned a fee of 30,000 do»'ars by successfully prosecuting a suit on lelmlf of the grandchildren of the late William Hr o9B for the immediate distribution of bis 300,000,000 dollars estate.

Mrs Miller was admitted to the bar in Marshall, Mich., and has been practising 13 years. She is a suffragist, and has spoken in public on behalf of the full enfranchisement of women. She does not see anything very remarkable in her winning the big fee. “The fee won’t make the slightest difference with me,’ said Mrs Miller, as she was hurrying away to another court to prosecute a case against the Chicago City Railway Company. “1 shall just keep on with my work in the same way. There is nothing remarkal’ about the fact that a woman lawyer should win a big will case Why sbouiun’t she ] Women are good talkers and persuasive in argument.”

Mrs Annie Hoekfelder, who received the degree LL. B. at New’ York University tliis summer, will put out a sign which will declare that she will receive

only women clients. She is said to be the pioneer in New’ York in the “la wyer-for- women class Her husband is also a lawyer, and she took up the study because she wanted to be more in sympathy with bis work.