[2] In September 17, 1884,[a] she married one of her classmates, George Howard Fall, of Malden, Massachusetts, who was then teaching, but who immediately after marriage commenced the study of law, and later became Mayor.

[5] Five years later, she began the study of law, having become deeply interested in it as a result of going into court and taking notes for her husband, who had meanwhile entered upon the practice of his profession in Boston, Massachusetts.

[6] Twenty-eight of these, including Fall, succeeded in passing and were sworn in before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court the following January.

She was admitted to the Suffolk bar on January 30, 1891[3] and became one of three female lawyers in Boston alongside Leila Robinson-Sawtelle and Alice Parker Lesser.

[7] In November 1891, she won her first case before a jury, one of the ablest and most noted lawyers of Massachusetts being the principal counsel on the opposite side.