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There are lawyers who work hours so long they miss baseball games, and there are those who after giving birth will leave the delivery room to find a phone, and make the calls necessary to negotiate a business deal. When Deborah Majoras started working in the legal industry in the late 1980s, the Procter and Gamble Co. chief legal officer said in a recent interview, these were the types of stories she and her peers would hear.