The question of why the legal industry, which was at the forefront of the civil rights movement, hasn't been able to do a good job of diversification opened a recent program by the Villanova Law Minority Alumni Society called "Why Diversity Matters." Part of the problem, said Philadelphia Bar Association Chancellor A. Michael Pratt, is that the demands of being a lawyer have caused many minority attorneys to forget their "rabble-rouser days" and fear speaking out against injustices.
March 20, 2008 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on National Law Journal
The demands of being a lawyer may have caused many minority attorneys to forget their “rabble-rouser days” and fear speaking out against injustices within law firms and corporations, Philadelphia Bar Association Chancellor A. Michael Pratt said earlier this month.
“I think the problem is that we don’t have rabble-rousers anymore — that we don’t agitate,” Pratt said.
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