Alice Parker began her law practice in Boston in 1890."Club Women of Massachusetts" Boston Post (April 22, 1904): 7. via Newspapers.com She also gave lectures for women on legal matters, and worked on state legislation involving women's rights."Alice Parker" in Frances Elizabeth Willard and Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, eds., American Women: Fifteen Hundred Biographies (Mast Crowell and Kirkpatrick 1897): 557. She was president of Portia, an organization of women lawyers and law students in Boston, and also president of Pentagon, a social organization for professional women.Jane Cunningham Croly, The History of the Woman's Club Movement in America (H. G. Allen 1898): 658-659. She was a member of the Women Lawyers' AssociationJean H. Norris, "The Women Lawyers' Association" Women Lawyers' Journal (January 1915): 28. and the Massachusetts Federation of Women's Clubs, where she chaired the Committee on Legislation.
