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Leading Litigatrix Heads To Court -- The Basketball Court

What does the new executive director of the NBA players' union, who's leaving a Biglaw partnership to take the role, have to say for herself?

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Let’s be clear: I’m sure there were people that noticed I was a girl. Having said that, I frankly wanted to address that question up front whenever I spoke with any of the members of the executive committee and the union. My sense was, the only thing people cared about was my resolve.

— Michele Roberts, the Skadden Arps partner who was just elected the new executive director of the NBA players’ union, commenting on whether her gender played any role in her election. (You can read more about Roberts’s background in this prior profile.)

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