I keenly remember my ears popping as I ascended to the 50th floor of the Comcast Center, my anxiety level climbing with each passing floor. It was the summer after my first year of law school, and I was reporting for my first day of my internship. I was fortunate—not many 1L summers have the chance to experience the inner workings of a large in-house legal department at this juncture in their legal careers.
It was an opportunity afforded to me by a group of Philadelphia lawyers who recognized concerted effort is required in order to increase diverse representation in the local legal community. In forming the Philadelphia Diversity Law Group (PDLG) in 2001 and the flagship PDLG Fellows Program, these forward-thinking lawyers made real the chance for people like me to blossom as a colleague in the law—and planted a seed that expanded my view of pro bono service. It is one that remains.
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