They are thriving among the ranks of attorneys at the city’s big-name law firms and corporations. They are not just the best and the brightest. Participants of the Philadelphia Diversity Law Group Summer 1L Program are the growing number of rising stars dedicated to increasing diversity among Philadelphia’s legal community.
Philadelphia lags behind the national average (13 percent) and ranks below nearly every other major city in terms of its practicing minority lawyers (approximately 8 percent). In 2001, a group of local law firms and businesses seeking to address this dearth of diversity formed the PDLG, which has since offered several programs encouraging the recruitment and retention of diverse attorneys.
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