Both Gwen and Carolyn encouraged me to join the MRWBA in 1994, following my clerkship. They said that this is a great way to network with other female attorneys, and they were right. It was a long drive from Chesterfield to downtown Richmond for the lunches, but it was worthwhile. Both Carolyn and Gwen were "top notch" med mal lawyers and I learned from them. There were not many women litigators in this field, and they were role models. We had to learn the medicine in order to take on these cases. I have also followed in their footsteps, and my practice focus is med mal, along with catastrophic personal injury, death cases, and sexual assault.