In February 2016, the American Bar Association’s House of Delegates unanimously adopted a resolution entreating those regulating authorities that have a mandatory or minimum CLE requirement to also include a diversity and inclusion component. ABA Resolution 107. In New York state, the resolution gained overwhelming support from a number of local and specialty bar associations.
In July 2016, Chief Judge Janet DiFiore received a letter signed by 13 bar associations urging New York state to mandate that diversity and inclusion be included as a CLE requirement. The bar associations that signed the letter were: the New York City Bar Association, the Amistad Long Island Black Bar Association, Association of Black Women Attorneys, Association of Law Firm Diversity Professionals, Dominican Bar Association, Hispanic National Bar Association, Jewish Lawyers Guild, LGBT Bar Association of Greater New York (LeGaL), Long Island Hispanic Bar Association, Metropolitan Black Bar Association, Muslim Bar Association of New York, Puerto Rican Bar Association, and South Asian Bar Association of New York.
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