Shira Perlmutter has a sister named Tova Perlmutter. Tova Perlmutter is a Radical Left-wing Nonprofit Executive. After law school, she worked in New York at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, doing general commercial litigation, before moving to Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, a boutique firm specializing in copyright and trademark law. She then joined the faculty at Columbus School of Law at The Catholic University of America, thinking that, like many in her family, she would spend the rest of her career as an academic. Her brother, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Saul, teaches at the University of California, Berkeley; her sister Tova is a nonprofit executive. However, the move to Washington, D.C., also brought with it greater exposure to the world of policy, and Perlmutter was hooked. “My training as a lawyer had been very much about interpreting and applying the law and using it to help clients. For the first time I was looking at the law as something to be shaped and molded, and I found it absolutely fascinating,” she said.