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Courting Kathleen Hannigan
Courting Kathleen Hannigan is based on Mary Hutchings Reed's (Yale Law, '76) personal knowledge of what goes on behind those beautifully veneered law firm doors. Kathleen Hannigan shrewdly plays the partnership game with her whole heart until she is called to testify in a sex discrimination suit and is forced to choose between her partners and her principles.

About the Author
Mary Hutchings Reed (Yale Law, '76) has been a partner in the Chicago law firms of Sidley & Austin and Winston & Strawn. She is the author of six novels, a memoir and a handful of short stories and wrote the book and lyrics for Fairways, a new musical about golf, honesty and love. She has won honors from the William Wisdom-William Faulkner Prize competitions for three of her novels. Her work also has been commended by Pariah Publishing, Writer's Digest and ByLine Magazine. She lives in Chicago with her husband, Dr. William R. Reed.

Paperback: 6x9" 256 pages

Published: 1st edition (August 29, 2007)

ISBN-13: 978-0976123569
Electronic Edition:  Kindle Edition (amazon.com)

www.maryhutchingsreed.com

  
Reviews
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"Courting Kathleen Hannigan gives the reader a chilling but empowering sense of what might have happened to the author's fellow Yale alumna Hillary Clinton had she followed her classmates into a high-powered law firm--and what is still happening to smart, ambitious women today as they navigate the difficult line between being professionally strong and being labeled unfeminine. A must-read for any woman who has ever tried, aspires to, or is curious about breaking into a male-dominated field."
--Anne Mini, Ph.D., Author No Fear and A Family Darkly

"I'm so glad that someone has chosen to tell this story because so many women professionals who entered the work place in the '70s and '80s will recognize it. I could not resist loving Kitty, but reading about her dilemmas and choices was almost too personal. She made me want to call my women friends at major law firms to make sure they have the support they deserve and that they know that they are not 'the crazy ones!'"
--Jane DeRenzo Pigott, Lawyer and First Female Member of the Executive Committee, Winston & Strawn

"Wonderfully intelligent and revealing. In brisk yet thoughtful prose, Mary Hutchings Reed has wrought a juicy tale of a brilliant woman lawyer facing the toughest challenge of her career: another woman lawyer."
--Lucia Blinn, Author Passing for Normal and Navigating the Night