4/19/2023 0 Comments Rocketship coffee![]() One must walk the walk AND talk the talk. How can we ensure more of these stories are told in Hollywood and the media in general? RC: It is still so rare to see an AAPI woman protagonist on television or at the movies. I like to write a lot about timing and circumstance, and how they impact life outcomes. Through circumstance, one of them fled the Chinese Communist Revolution as a very young mother and ultimately landed as a stranger in Mei Guo (literally translated: the “Beautiful Country”) and the other ultimately became a Supreme Court Justice of the United States. Both of them were amazing, incredibly intelligent, resilient women who inspired me. I dedicated “The Partner Track” in memory of my grandmother, An Ching Chun, who was 14 years older than RBG. ![]() But that epigraph is meaningful to me for another reason. Her life and legal career already made her a role model. HW: Oh, I’ve always loved that quote from the Notorious RBG. RC: What was your inspiration for the epigraph by Ruth Bader Ginsburg: “I would not like to be the only woman on the Court.” It was the kind of smart, sexy, savvy show that, if I’d just randomly stumbled upon it one night while looking for something new to watch, I would honestly have loved it then, too. So when I finally curled up and binge-watched all 10 episodes of the show one recent weekend, it was magical. I’d never truly imagined all of the stars aligning the way they did, for this to happen. From NetDocumentsīy the morning I received the astounding news from my agent: “Hi! Are you sitting down? I believe Netflix wants to make a show out of your book!” I had honestly almost written off the possibility. Because so much of legal work begins and ends with documents, the best way to immediately benefit from workflow automation is through legal document automation.
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