{"id":159475,"date":"2026-08-04T15:33:58","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T23:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/04\/the-legal-legend-that-answered-no-to-a-secretarys-desk\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T15:33:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T23:33:58","slug":"the-legal-legend-that-answered-no-to-a-secretarys-desk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/04\/the-legal-legend-that-answered-no-to-a-secretarys-desk\/","title":{"rendered":"The Legal Legend That Answered No To A Secretary\u2019s Desk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span>Ed. Note:<\/span> Welcome to our daily feature <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/trivia-question-of-the-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trivia Question of the Day!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>She graduated near the top of her Stanford Law class of 1952, made law review and the Order of the Coif\u2026 but upon graduation, the only job offer she got in California was as a legal secretary. Who was she?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: Her law school class rank was just behind future Chief Justice William Rehnquist, and they served together on <i>Stanford Law Review<\/i>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/08\/the-legal-legend-that-answered-no-to-a-secretarys-desk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Legal Legend That Answered No To A Secretary\u2019s Desk<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><span>Ed. Note:<\/span> Welcome to our daily feature <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/trivia-question-of-the-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trivia Question of the Day!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>She graduated near the top of her Stanford Law class of 1952, made law review and the Order of the Coif\u2026 but upon graduation, the only job offer she got in California was as a legal secretary. Who was she?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: Her law school class rank was just behind future Chief Justice William Rehnquist, and they served together on <i>Stanford Law Review<\/i>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/08\/the-legal-legend-that-answered-no-to-a-secretarys-desk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Legal Legend That Answered No To A Secretary\u2019s Desk<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! She graduated near the top of her Stanford Law class of 1952, made law review and the Order of the Coif\u2026 but upon graduation, the only job offer she got in California was as a legal secretary. Who was she? Hint: Her law [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}