Gender and Racial Equality at Kerr & Wagstaffe

Kerr & Wagstaffe's partner, Ms. Jacqueline Scott Corley, will soon exit the firm.

Corley, the only female partner at an otherwise male dominated law firm, is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard School of Law. While at Harvard, she served as an editor of the prestigious Harvard Law Review alongside President Obama.

Prior to joining the firm as a non-equity partner in September of 2009, Corley served as the principal attorney in the chamber of Hon Charles R. Breyer.

While at Kerr & Wagstaffe, Corley succsesfully defended a Massachusetts lawyer -- Mr. Cristobal Bonifaz -- in an action filed by Chevron for malicious prosecution.

Pending background checks by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Internal Revenue Service, Jacqueline Scott Corley will be sworn in as a United States Magistrate Judge.