Tailored to women from working-class families, Portia Law School was founded in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1908. Sensitive to the financial and time pressures these women faced, it offered part-time enrollment as well as the high school and college-level courses required to prepare students for legal studies. During the Great Depression, Portia Law School began opening up its programs to male students. The candidates for the Bachelor of Laws in the Class of 1932, however, were all female. And cousin Evelyn C. Kiner was one.
Portia Law School continues today as New England School of Law.
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