Elizabeth Lee Beck is co-managing partner at her own business litigation boutique law firm in Miami, Florida (www.beckandlee.com) and is embroiled in numerous lawsuits on behalf of her clients. Prior to her career as a lawyer, Elizabeth held many jobs, including department store salesperson, pizza maker, and public high school math teacher in Los Angeles. Elizabeth was born in Seoul, South Korea, and grew up in the Koreatown/Pico-Union district of Los Angeles. She is fluent in Korean. Elizabeth credits her mother as her biggest influence and inspiration: a single parent who raised her only child while struggling on welfare. Elizabeth first stepped inside a courtroom at the age of nine when she cycled through the California foster care and juvenile court system when her mother lost custody of her, and ever since then, Elizabeth has always felt at home in the courts. Elizabeth attended UCLA for college, majoring in mathematics, and graduated from Yale Law School. Additional information can also be found at the law firm blog at http://beckandlee.wordpress .com.
I used to wish I were a boy, for a brief period in grade school. When I was younger, my mother told me this story from her life: after losing her first babies, twins of a boy and a girl, ten...