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make the FBI's most wanted list. When Nancy Gertner was a young lawyer, she took on Saxe's case, defending her against charges related to the deadly shooting of a police office during a bank robbery. It was a high-profile, complex, and highly charged case. What followed for Gertner was a career of other groundbreaking firsts, as she fought her way through the boys' club climate of the time, throwing herself into criminal and civil cases focused on women's rights and civil liberties. Today Judge Nancy Gertner dons a long black robe while presiding over court cases for the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. But in the 1970s, when she was one of few women in a stubbornly male profession, she sported bright red suits that reflected her fearless choice of cases and her daring litigation tactics. Defending clients in some of the most prominent criminal and civil rights cases of the time, Gertner drove home the point that women lawyers belonged in our courtrooms. In Defense of Women is the one-of-a-kind memoir of an exceptional, self-proclaimed "outsider lawyer."