Excerpt quoted in "Afterword, Lazy B and the Nation’s Court: Pragmatism in the Service of Principle":

[W]hen I entered law school, I didn't even think about the future, whether I would want to practice law, and if I did, what the job opportunities would be. I just assumed I would be able to get a job, and that was a very naive position, looking back.

I finally called an undergraduate woman friend of mine at Stanford, whose father was a partner in a well-known, very large California law firm, headquartered in Los Angeles. I said, "Ask your father, if you would, if he could get me a job interview in the law firm."

She did. And he did.

I made the trip to Los Angeles. I sat down with the law firm partner doing job interviews, and we chatted for a little while, and then he said, "Ms. Day, how do you type?"

I said, "Well, medium. I can get by but it's not great."

He said, "If you can demonstrate that you can type well enough, I might be able to get you a job in this firm as a legal secretary. But Ms. Day, we have never hired a woman as a lawyer here, and I don't see the time when we will."

So that was pretty much the situation.