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Top Women Lawyers

May 12, 2011

Jennifer C. Pizer

The Williams Institute (UCLA School of Law) Location: Los Angeles Practice type: Impact litigation Practice specialty: LGBT rights



Long before most legal minds recognized there was a trail to same-sex marriage, Pizer was blazing it.


Inspired in part by lesbian professors at New York University School of Law, her alma mater, Pizer jumped into the fray of civil-rights advocacy early in her career. After stints as a judicial clerk, an abortion-rights leader and an attorney in private practice, she embarked on what became a 15-year tenure at Lambda Legal, a gay-rights organization. As senio...

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