Road map to diversity; report cites obstacles to 'full and equal' minority participation in the legal profession

Article Abstract:

A 1998 report by the ABA Commission on Opportunities in the Profession suggests a marginal increase in the employment of minority attorneys since the mid-1980s, but maintains that those gains have been fragile and could be halted or reversed by developments such as the undercutting of minority enrollment efforts at public law schools in California and Texas. The minority numbers in the legal profession have increased from some 5% in 1980 to 7.45% in 1990.

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Losing numbers; poor retention bogs down law firms' diversity efforts

Article Abstract:

The poor retention rate of minority lawyers at law firms willing to hire them is discussed, and their attrition rate is much worse than that for nonminority lawyers. Ideas at the National Summit on the Retention of Minority Lawyers sponsored by the ABA Commission on Opportunities for Minorities in the Profession are discussed.

Laws, regulations and rules, Workplace multiculturalism, Workplace diversity

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Breaking out of the mold; ABA colloquium cites ways to diversify legal profession

Article Abstract:

The 1999 ABA Colloquium on Diversity in the Legal Profession is described, convened to develop action plans to to foster diversity in the legal profession. Accomplishments included setting up the ABA Legal Opportunity Scholarship Fund to provide financial aid to minority law students.

Conferences, meetings and seminars, A.B.A.

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