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Top Women Lawyers

May 9, 2012

Tara L. Borelli

Lambda Legal Los Angeles Practice type: litigation


The struggle for gay equality springs from Borelli's personal life and energizes her work as a key litigator at Lambda Legal's western regional office in Los Angeles.


Borelli's female spouse, a social worker, has chronic asthma. When she went back to school, UCLA declined to enroll her in the student health plan, likely because of her pre-existing condition, Borelli said.


"That left me with a feeling of extreme personal vulnerability,&q...

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