The American Bar Association's LGBT Litigator Committee launched nearly a year ago, and the national attorneys' group is expecting continued growth and development as it gains prominence in both the LGBT and mainstream legal communities.

Abbe Fletman, a shareholder at Philadelphia's Flaster Greenberg, suggested the idea for what would be the first-ever ABA committee geared toward LGBT attorneys to her fellow members of the ABA's Section of Litigation in 2008.

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