Chron: Meet the Houston Attorney Pushing to Put More Women in the Courtroom

Mary-Olga Lovett has litigated innumerable corporate cases, successfully defending companies in patent infringement and fraudulent marketing cases in federal and state courts.

So Lovett, a senior vice president at international law firm Greenberg Traurig and co-shareholder in the company’s Texas division, was a natural choice when the general counsel at a tech startup was looking for representation in a contentious upcoming lawsuit. She pitched herself, her strategy and her long list of accomplishments to the board of directors, and both attorneys thought it was a slam dunk.