Lynn e Abraham
and the
Power of Persistence
SOPHIE PANZER | JE STAFF
Lynne Abraham
during her
2015 mayoral
campaign Courtesy of Jewish
Federation of Greater
Philadelphia L
ynne Abraham doesn’t quit.

In the midst of a global pandemic, the 79-year-old former Philadelphia District
Attorney has commandeered her dining room table so that she can work from home.

Social distancing has limited interviews to phone calls and email, but she paints a
picture with her words.

“My dining room table is a dog’s breakfast — the same as any desk I’ve ever sat
behind,” she noted.

Abraham is a partner at the law fi rm Archer & Greiner, P.C. Th is might come as a
surprise to the fi rms who refused to hire women in 1965, the year she graduated from
Temple Law School as one of two women in her class and had diffi culty fi nding work.

Even more surprising might be her four terms as the city’s DA and her 2015 mayoral
campaign. 6
MAY 14, 2020
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