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Last month Susan Harriman, the general counsel of San Francisco-based Keker, Van Nest & Peters, was inducted as the 73rd president of the American College of Trial Lawyers. Harriman is the third woman to head up the elite, invitation-only North American trial advocacy group where no more than 1% of the lawyers in any U.S. state or Canadian province are fellows.