How was she so different from other women attorneys?
My father is a litigator. I grew up with, "Women can't be litigators. You can be a lawyer, but not a litigator. Women don't have the fight."
Most of the women attorneys I knew did transaction work, a few that did trial work just weren't as feisty as Nancy. This is just my personal experience. Obviously there are aggressive women litigators, Nancy is just one. My own work was mostly corporate, before masters and judges in small venues with technical issues, not big jury trials. So again, this is my personal experience. The women attorneys I met were certainly hardworking, but the type of law we practiced just doesn't lend itself to the personal style of a Nancy Grace.