The Minority 40 Under 40

The lawyers profiled here were all born in the 1970s, a decade when law schools and law firms were just beginning to welcome minorities in significant numbers. The thriving careers of these lawyers — at law firms and in government, academia and public interest — attest to the greater opportunities available to them, as well as to their talents. But progress has been mixed. As Paulette Brown notes in her commentary, the economic crisis of 2008 took a great toll on diversity. And ethnically diverse lawyers still comprise only about 6 percent of equity partners.

EFREN ACOSTA Fulbright & Jaworski	TAMMY ALBARRÁN Covington & Burling	CRISTINA ALONSO Carlton Fields	DAVID BROWN Paul Weiss
ESTHER CHANG McDermott Will	DORIS CHENG Melodia Walkup	JUDE CONCEPCION Eisai Inc.	SARANG V. DAMLE U.S. Dept. of Justice
JARET DAVIS Greenberg Traurig	MARWA ELZANKALY McManis Faulkner	KYRUS FREEMAN Holland & Knight	GEJAA T. GOBENA U.S. Dept. of Justice
BRIAN GUNN Drinker Biddle	VANITA GUPTA American Civil Liberties Union	TRACY RICHELLE HIGH Sullivan & Cromwell	JAMES HO Gibson Dunn
ROBERT JAMES JR. DeKalb County, Ga. D.A.	VICTOR JIH O'Melveny & Myers	CHRISTOPHER KANG Office of the White House Counsel	CHANTAL KORDULA Cleary Gottlieb
LEONDRA KRUGER Office of the Solicitor General	LAUREN LUCAS Southern Center for Human Rights	BRIAN MATSUI Morrison & Foerster	AMIT MEHTA Zuckerman Spaeder
CHI MGBAKO Fordham Law School	INDRANIL MUKERJI Fish & Richardson	ANGELA ONWUACHI-WILLIG Univ. of Iowa Law	MANUEL ORTIZ Brownstein Hyatt
ARCHIS PARASHARAMI Mayer Brown	BRENDON PINKARD Wiley Rein	VERNESSA POLLARD Arnold & Porter	NAHLA RAJAN Mitchell Silberberg
ANA REYES Williams & Connolly	SHIMA ROY Baker & McKenzie	PHILIPPA SCARLETT Kirkland & Ellis	KANNON SHANMUGAM Williams & Connolly
MANISHA SHETH Quinn Emanuel	AMANDEEP SIDHU McDermott Will	VIVIAN LEE THOREEN Holland & Knight	TIMOTHY WU Columbia Law School, FTC