A study by the American Bar Association states that discrimination is prompting growing numbers of minority women to abandon large law firms. The study, released Friday during the ABA's annual convention, shows 81 percent of minority female associates leave their jobs within five years. Edwards, Angell, Palmer and Dodge partner Elaine Johnson James says she has seen such defections -- of the 50 or so black women in her Harvard class, she says she knows of only one other than herself working at a firm.
August 08, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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An American Indian attorney is asked where she keeps her tomahawk. White male partners look past a black lawyer, assuming she is clerical staff. An Asian attorney is called a “dragon lady” when she asserts herself.
A study by the American Bar Association that says those real-life experiences, along with more subtle forms of discrimination, are prompting growing numbers of minority women to abandon the nation’s biggest law firms.
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