The Authority
ON SUING AUTHORITY FIGURES.
Passion.
Ms. Gordon has deep roots in Detroit. She is the daughter of the legendary Lou Gordon, Detroit’s crusading broadcast journalist during the 1960-70s. Lou has been described as "Detroit’s Mike Wallace, a broadcast cop who cowered before no one. The bigger the interview, the tougher he got. Gordon was, by far, the most feared man in television, maybe in the history of the local medium."
(From Soupy to Nuts! A History of Detroit Television, Tim Kiska, Momentum Books LLC, 2005.)
Ms. Gordon took the lessons she learned at the dinner table – honesty, fearlessness, perseverance, intellectual curiosity – and an inherent and abiding sense of right and wrong, and applied them to her life and her career in law.