When considering the concept of cultural competency within the legal community, it initially struck me as some amorphous and potentially elusive dynamic that would be difficult to discern with any reasonable certainty.

Diversity, while not simple to achieve, is fairly obvious when you see it and is glaringly apparent when it doesn’t exist. Inclusion, again, not an easy accomplishment, but still, it is another one of those attributes that we can put a finger on: It can be recognized, documented and quantified. But cultural competency poses much greater challenges.

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