“A lot of New York firms still haven’t recognized diversity as an issue,” says Coudert Brothers partner Darrell Gay. “A lot of others are aware it’s out there, but have chosen to ignore it.” Gay, who headed DSGay Law Group before joining Coudert in 2003, is a former chairman of the diversity committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York (ABCNY).
According to the latest statistics from The National Association for Law Placement, Inc. (NALP), minorities composed just 4 percent of partners at Big Apple firms in 2003, the same as the national average. (NALP’s figures are for firms of all sizes.) By contrast, lawyers of color made up 6-8 percent of the partner pool in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Jose. Miami was in a class by itself, with a partnership base more than 19 percent minority.
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