What does Lu struggle with at work after she becomes Howard County’s first female state’s attorney in the novel, Wilde Lake?

After beginning her new job, Lu deals with issues of authority. These issues come from two sources. First, she is a woman. The second is that the people who work under her were her former coworkers. She grapples with how to deal with people who come in without knocking and put their legs on her desk. Her office symbolizes her insecurity.