Los Angeles County (Inglewood)
By Pat Alston
Daily Journal Staff Writer
INGLEWOOD - Lauren Weis Birnstein's father never treated her like a girl.
He took her with him to the golf course and taught her to play tennis and chess.
"That gave me a lot of confidence," she said.
That self-assurance would take her on a post-college odyssey around the world and eventually, she said, place her in the midst of the most exciting live theater on earth: the courtroom.<... (continued)