When male lawyers were called to serve in WWII, the LSUC asked women lawyers to temporarily work the offices of soldiering lawyers. For the first time, women lawyers were welcomed into many large firms. WLAO opposed a move by the provincial government to lower the pay of women, not men, lawyers.
The Canadian Bar Association accepted the WLAO President as an ex-officio to the Governing Council, and elected the first woman, WLAO President Eileen Mitchell, as member-at-large. To help give social direction in the post-war years, WLAO and LCW put on what may have been the first large-scale public lecture series on law in Ontario. For two years, members led sessions on legal and public interest topics: labour, criminal, divorce, estates, real estate, landlord and tenant law, homelessness, prison reform, insurance, and women in jury duty, with upwards of 500 attendees.