It was her second week at Butler, Rubin, Saltarelli & Boyd LLP, and Carrie Lausen was literally flying high.
The year was 1988, and Lausen — a newly minted paralegal from Roosevelt University — was one of three firm members on a flight to Hartford, Conn., for a document review on a pending lawsuit.
After earning a business degree in 1985 from Indiana University, Lausen took a job as a clerk for a now-defunct Japanese bank.
But wanting to launch a professional career, Lausen enrolled in the …