Ladies: Speak up and take risks.

That’s the advice that some of the nation’s most successful women attorneys offered hundreds of attendees at an inaugural event this month at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law. The event, hosted by Women LEAD, featured some big names: California Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye, former U.S. Secretary of Labor Alexis Herman and U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Judges Kim McLane Wardlaw and Sandra Ikuta.

Nancy Abell.