Photo: JOHN NACION
Long-time US women's rights lawyer Gloria Allred is probably the most famous attorney in the United States.
Having represented Jane Roe (Norma McCorvey) in the 1980s, last week she watched the overturning of Roe V Wade, only to then see this week the sentencing of Jeffrey Epstein's partner-in-crime Ghislaine Maxwell, some of whose victims she also represented.
Over the course of her four decade plus legal career, Allred has won countless honours for her pioneering legal work, often with high profile but controversial cases, focusing particularly on the rights of women and of minorities.
Norma McCorvey, Jane Roe in the 1973 court case (left) and attorney Gloria Allred (right) hold hands as they leave the Supreme Court building in Washington on April 26, 1989, after sitting in court listening to arguments in a Missouri abortion case. Photo: J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE
