Alan Kluger of Kluger, Kaplan, Silverman, Katzen & Levine, left, and H.T. Smith, founding director of the trial advocacy program at Florida International University College of Law, right. Courtesy photos
In 2021, we came together to launch the H.T. Smith Legal Studies Scholarship in an effort to support minority law school students. Our goal was not only to improve diversity retention and inclusion within Kluger, Kaplan, Silverman, Katzen & Levine, but also encourage other firms to take tangible steps to create a more diverse workforce in the South Florida legal industry.
Black attorneys still experience slow growth in the legal industry, with the number of Black partners increasing by only half a percentage point since 2009, according to the 2021 National Association of Law Placement (NALP) Report on U.S. Diversity in Law Firms.
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