Why She Has Failed at the Bar Every Law Term when dining in all T become more and more conscious of the increasing numbers women students, writes a London barrister. They sit together at." central table in the old Hall, and draw about them the black sleeve-ess gowns of which they are so do not look parti-at case, self con ident or at home, And every Law Term, as "call" night comes round, one or more of these women students changes her student's gown for the full. sleeve gown and horse-hair wie of a full Then she disappears. comes of her? She has fluent tongue, and self-confidence, yet she seldom appears in Court.
Few solicitors will br the woman barrister. Perhaps they fare prejudiced by her sox. haps they regard the briefing of untried barrister as a fngtish women barristers conter when they have broken down the barriers of prejudice they will succeed as well as mon. But it 80 happens that they lack certain qualities necessary for success. perhaps, come physical endurance. The successful barrister works some 15 to 18 hours a day. Next comes a large and deep knowledge of life, of human nature, of the wiles of men and of women. These are things the male barr picks up in his progress about the world.
1 have heard one or two women barristers in court. They all struck me in the same way. First they: are immensely conscientious, trust to technical argument and are, po Thaps, a little impervious to the "feel" of the court.
They have not a flair—so fat" as T have been able to judge—for brushing aside unimportant technicalities for broad issues. They are technicians.
'Yet women have succeeded in America 1am answered, Very true, 'There are women in large practice in the States, eminent and successful lawyers. But—it practice in the States, emmment' 'a8 solicitors, and not as advocates.
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