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Archived Issue

September 2001

Cover Story – State and Local Bar Associations: Promoting Diversity

We’ve examined the diversity efforts of several bar associations and packaged it all together. Now it’s available to you. Read about what bar associations are doing to advance the cause of diversity. learn more about their accomplishments, obstacles, and the future hopes of bar association leaders nationwide.

Features

Columns

State and Local Bar Associations: Promoting Diversity

By Jeanna Steele 

State and Local Bar Associations discussed: The California Minority Counsel Program The Chicago Committee on Minorities in Large Law Firms The State Bar of Georgia's Diversity Program The Hispanic Bar…

Not Just a Regular Guy

By Scott Mitchell 

How in a nation that is 51 percent female and 30 percent people of color could there be a regular guy? We must raise our consciousness levels to understand that…

Using Bar Associations to Climb to the Top

By Donna Dick , By Rhonda Davis Smith 

Bar associations may be the answer to your career aspirations, whether it is a step up within your current law department or firm or just an opportunity to make the…

The National Institute for Diversity in Law: Still on the Rise

By Donna Dick 

Tevela Barnes Lawyers for One America (LFOA) was formed in 1999 in response to President Bill Clinton’s Call to Action to the legal profession to increase pro bono services and…

The Association of the Bar of the City of New York

By Donna Dick 

Maintaining High Standards (L to R): Joseph T. McLaughlin, executive vice president, Legal & Regulatory Affairs, Credit Suisse First Boston; Evan Davis, president of the Association of the Bar of…

Spotlighting

By Alea J. Mitchell 

Columbus Bar Association Leads the Quest for Diversity Carl Smallwood Led by former-President Carl Smallwood, the Columbus Bar Association (CBA) is intensifying its quest for diversity in the legal profession….

Notes from the Executive Director

By Veta T. Richardson 

The Leading Voice Within the legal community, MCCA has emerged as the leading voice shaping the way lawyers look at the issue of diversity. My first year as Executive Director…

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