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Top Women Lawyers

May 10, 2012

Rita F. Lin

Morrison & Foerster LLP San Francisco Practice type: litigation


When Lin headed from her San Francisco offices to Pasadena as a litigation associate in 2008 to represent a lesbian staff lawyer at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in an employment dispute, she joked she wasn't looking to make a federal case out of a purely internal grievance hearing.


But a federal case it has become - one of the most serious challenges yet to the Defense of Marriage Act and one that has led to an Obama administration showdown with cong...

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