Susan Cahoon, a fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers, has chaired the firm’s litigation practice group and is the firm’s general counsel. She has represented clients in the chemical, life sciences and pharmaceutical industries in patent litigation, complex commercial litigation and intellectual property litigation. She graduated from Harvard Law School in 1971.
You enrolled at Emory at age 15, and some years later you became your law firm’s first female partner. Were you motivated to be a groundbreaker, or were you in the right place at the right time?
