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Law Practice

May 31, 2017

Longtime litigator reflects on her career as a woman lawyer

The partners in Helen Zukin's first firm had never heard of a woman trying a case alone.

By Justin Kloczko
Daily Journal Staff Writer

Helen Zukin reflects on triumphs, challenges as a woman in law

BEVERLY HILLS — Helen Zukin is sitting inside her third-floor office in front of a large piece of Chinese artwork that references government propaganda, recalling the first case she ever tried alone.

It was the late 1980s and Zukin, an associate in her late 20s with Gre...

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