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Law Practice

May 27, 2015

Practicing through chemotherapy

Though she told very few people at the time, Cheryl Orr, the chair of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP's national labor and employment practice, battled breast cancer in 2010 - and never stopped working.


By Alison Frost


Daily Journal Staff Writer


SAN FRANCISCO - Things were looking up for Cheryl D. Orr in January 2007. Eager to
offer her clients a greater variety of services, she'd moved from a statewide labor
and employment firm where she'd spent more than 5 1/2 years as the managing partner
of its San Francisco office to international, full-service firm Drinker Biddle & Rea...

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