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Law Practice

Dec. 18, 2007

Los Angeles Litigator Was a Pioneer for Female Lawyers

Phyllis Norton Cooper, the last surviving charter member of the American College of Trial Lawyers and a pioneer for female lawyers, died Dec. 5 of heart disease. She was 92.

Phyllis Norton Cooper 1915-2007

By Alexa Hyland
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      LOS ANGELES - Phyllis Norton Cooper, the last surviving charter member of the American College of Trial Lawyers and a pioneer for female lawyers, died Dec. 5 of heart disease.
      She was 92.
      Cooper was the first female president of the University of Southern California L...

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