Justice Ginsburg oral history added to ABA Women Trailblazers Project 

CHICAGO— The American Bar Association Women Trailblazers in the Law Project has released the oral history of U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second woman to be appointed to the Supreme Court.

The oral history consists of eight in-depth interviews with Justice Ginsburg conducted between 1995 and 2014 by Maeva Marcus, a historian with George Washington University Law School, on behalf of the Historical Society of the District of Columbia Circuit. 

Justice Ginsburg donated the oral history to the ABA Women Trailblazers Project sponsored by the ABA Senior Lawyers Division. The project has collected detailed oral histories of more than 100 women pioneers in the legal profession nationwide who have made important contributions to the law and opened opportunities for other women. Stanford Law School’s Robert Crown Law Library, in an agreement with the ABA, has preserved and archived the ABA Women Trailblazers Project’s oral history collection and created a website. Justice Ginsburg’s oral history is available at https://abawtp.law.stanford.edu/.

David B. Ederer rejoins Bodman

David B. Ederer has returned as a member in Bodman’s Real Estate Practice Group.

Based in the Grand Rapids office, Ederer has over 25 years of experience in commercial real estate law, with a particular focus on the negotiation of leases with national and regional retailers. He has represented both landlords and tenants. His landlord clients have included a national real estate management firm listed on the New York Stock Exchange and many local and regional developers. His work on behalf of tenants has included negotiating leases and other agreements for some of the nation’s largest retail and restaurant chains with the Mall of America, Disney World, Aventura Mall in Miami, and other major landlords.

Ederer practiced previously with Bodman from 2019 to 2022 before rejoining the real estate group at a prominent Florida-based law firm where he regularly represented both landlords and tenants in the structuring of complex and sophisticated leasing transactions of all sizes.      

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