If racial diversity in the legal profession is ever to climb above the 10% mark where it has hovered for the past decade, pre-law counselors and law school admissions officers need to do a better job of identifying promising minority applicants, guiding them through the often intimidating application process and ensuring that they graduate.
November 28, 2011 at 12:00 AM
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Whitney Montgomery always knew she wanted to be an attorney — a “young, female, black Matlock,” as she put it in her law school application.
But her road to law school was a bumpy one, navigated largely through trial and error rather than with the support of the pre-law counselor at Northeastern University, where she obtained a degree in criminal justice in 2006.
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