“The legal profession is run by white men in their fifties,” says Ghatt, 31, who speaks from experience, having worked for Willkie Farr’s mostly white-male cast of telecom partners. This year Ghatt and two African American friends reinvented themselves, launching the D.C.� based Ghatt Law Group. (Several Willkie Farr partners declined to comment on the complexion of the telecom practice.)
Ghatt says it is “almost by necessity, rather than choice” that women and minorities are striking out on their own. Her new colleagues Nicolaine Lazarre and Fatima Fofana also started at big firms�Weil, Gotshal & Manges and Davis Wright Tremaine, respectively. Like her, they had the advantage of working with big-name clients such as AOL Time Warner Inc., Motorola, Inc., and Clear Channel Communications, Inc.
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