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To: Skywatcher who wrote (165964)	5/17/2010 3:51:06 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 173976

More accomplished than Kagen

To: Skywatcher who wrote (165964)	5/17/2010 3:52:44 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 173976

Miers was actually more impressive than Kagan. Whether she should have been on the SC or not, she had a long successful legal career. Kagan's been in academia pretty much her entire career and only tried cases in the past year. >>>> From 1972 until 2001, Miers worked for the Dallas law firm of Locke, Liddell & Sapp (and predecessor firms before mergers). She was the first female lawyer hired by the firm and later became its president. When the merger that created Locke, Liddell & Sapp took place in 1999, she became the co-managing partner of a legal business with more than 400 lawyers. In 2000 the firm settled a lawsuit which accused the firm of having "aided a client in defrauding investors"[10] for $22 million; according to the Class Action Reporter, Miers "said the firm denies liability in connection with its representation of Erxleben. 'Obviously, we evaluated that this was the right time to settle and to resolve this matter and that it was in the best interest of the firm to do so,' Miers said."[10] As a commercial litigator, she represented clients including Microsoft and the Walt Disney Company. In 1986, Miers became the first female president of the Dallas Bar Association. In 1992, Miers became the first woman to head the State Bar of Texas. She has served as chair of the Board of Editors for the American Bar Association Journal and as the chair of the ABA's Commission on Multi-Jurisdictional Practice. >>>>> From wikipedia