Black & Brown Lawyers are RARE. New report assesses minority progress in legal profession.

• Combined -- Latinos and Blacks Make up Only 9% of all Attorneys [more]
  

Minorities are faring significantly worse in the legal profession than in other professions, minority entry into law has slowed considerably since a growth period from the 1980s through the mid-1990s, initial job opportunities for minorities in the law differ considerably from those available to whites, minorities are grossly underrepresented in top-level legal jobs and progress has been especially slow for minority women lawyers. As with two previous "Miles to Go" reports, the most recent study reviews available data from academic, government, professional and popular sources, draws conclusions about the status of minority law students and lawyers in various practice settings, and urges steps for bar associations, legal employers, law schools and individual lawyers to increase progress. That is the assessment of "Miles to Go: Progress of Minorities in the Legal Profession," a newly issued report of the American Bar Association Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession. Minority representation among lawyers is less than 9.7 percent, compared to 20.8 percent among accountants and auditors, 24.6 percent among physicians and surgeons and 18.2 percent among college and university teachers, says Chambliss, citing U.S. Census figures. Among students, minority representation has dropped the past two years, from 20.6 percent in 2001-02 to 20.3 percent in 2003-04, with the biggest slippage among African Americans. After law school graduation, minorities are less likely than whites to win judicial clerkship positions, or to go into private practice, and more likely to begin their careers in government or public interest jobs. In top-level jobs, fewer than 4.4 percent of partners in the nation's largest 250 firms and only 4.3 percent of corporate general counsel are minority. Chambliss reports that minority women are almost completely excluded from top private sector jobs. [more] and [more]

• Asian Americans make up just 2.3percent of the nation's 871,115 lawyers - Asian Americans make up 6 percent of the nation's law students
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