[2] From 1979 to 1988, she was a Staff Attorney with the Women's Law Project and Community Legal Services in Philadelphia.
[2] Kolbert served as the State Coordinating Counsel of the American Civil Liberty Union's Reproductive Freedom Project in New York City[2] from 1988 to 1992.
[2] In 1992, Kolbert argued before the United States Supreme Court in Planned Parenthood v. Casey,[3][4] a case which challenged five abortion regulations in Pennsylvania.
From 1998 to 2008, Kolbert oversaw a program on law and American life at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg Public Policy Center.
"[2] In 2011, Kolbert received the Edith I. Spivack Award from the New York County Lawyers' Association's Women's Rights Committee.