Word: mentschikoff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Troopers' Tongues. At the top of the profession, the law school professorships and law-firm partnerships are still largely closed to women. Yet Lawyer Soia Mentschikoff, 49, has achieved both. She was made a partner in a prominent Wall Street law firm in 1944, taught law at Harvard from 1947 to 1949, since 1950 has been at the University of Chicago Law School, teaching a range of topics from arbitration to an advanced course in "Law in the Behavioral Sciences." Her wise observation is that by acting naturally as a woman, "appealing to the emotional component present...