The rise of women in the solicitors' profession is the subject of a new exhibition at the Law Society library in Chancery Lane. It begins in 1913, when Gwyneth Bebb went to court and argued for the right to sit the Law Society examinations. At the time, the Society relied on a medieval treatise in old French to deny women (and infants and criminals) the right to become attorneys. Nine years later, Carrie Morrison passed the Law Society's final examination, and the apocryphal story is that she won a running race along Chancery Lane to gain the right to be admitted as the first female solicitor for England and Wales. The exhibition looks at the rise in numbers of women in the profession - women now make up 61% of new solicitors - as well as the changes the Society made to its building to welcome them. The display coincides with the Law Society's annual conference and will remain in the library until 17 November.