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Top Women Lawyers

May 9, 2013

Meryl Young

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP Irvine Practice type: litigation


Young admits that she kind of "fell in" to becoming an attorney.


While earning a bachelor's degree in Economics at Barnard College, Young was given the opportunity to enroll in a program at Columbia Law School where she could earn both her undergraduate degree and her law school degree in six years. On a whim, she applied, got in, and discovered she actually enjoyed it.


"I turned out to really liked law school, but I can't say I...

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