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April 30, 2021 | The Legal Intelligencer

Not every diverse candidate will become a Barack Obama, nor will any nondiverse candidate. Those expectations are clearly unreasonable.

By Albert S. Dandridge III

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July 03, 2020 | The Legal Intelligencer

Hallmark does not make a card to assuage this pain. Godiva does not make anything to combat this bitter taste. There are no floral arrangements to hide what we saw. There is no elevator music to mask what we heard.

By Albert S. Dandridge III

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April 01, 2019 | The Legal Intelligencer

I usually do not keep the daily copies of The Legal. I either pass it on, or send it to our library. However, I will keep this copy. I will keep this copy to remind me that the Philadelphia legal community has gone backwards—not forward.

By Albert S. Dandridge III

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June 28, 2018 | The Legal Intelligencer

At its mid-year meeting in February, the American Bar Association adopted Resolution 114, an important right-to-counsel measure intended to ensure that counsel will be provided as a matter of right to low-income persons in all proceedings that may result in a loss of physical liberty.

By Albert S. Dandridge III

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February 02, 2018 | The Legal Intelligencer

In an editorial that appeared on Aug. 8, 2017, in the New York Times, Shira A. Scheindlin, a retired Federal District Court judge for the Southern District of New York, wrote a compelling argument outlining the lack of women as first chair in major litigation.

By Albert S. Dandridge III

5 minute read

January 13, 2017 | The Legal Intelligencer

Recently the Philadelphia Bar Foundation removed the name Andrew Hamilton from its ­signature annual benefit ball. Andrew Hamilton was an early Philadelphia lawyer who was famous for, among other things, successfully defending John Peter Zenger, a New York publisher, in a seditious libel criminal trial in 1735. He is not the guy who appears on the $10 bill; that's another Hamilton. He is also not the first chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar 
Association.

By Albert S. Dandridge III

5 minute read

November 17, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

When I was a young Marine sergeant, I was "adopted" by a group of African-American Marines called the Montford Point Marines. During World War II, Montford Point was the training base for African-American Marines before the armed forces were desegregated by President Harry S. Truman. The Montford Point Marines who adopted me were career Marines, most of whom had fought in three wars. This was a proud, professional and patriotic group of men. Realizing their options were limited, they chose to stay in the Marine Corps and make it a career. Each one of them were senior enlisted men, first sergeants and sergeant majors. They also had something else in common. They were all married to school teachers.

By Albert S. Dandridge III

4 minute read

May 28, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

In 2008, in preparation for a Philadelphia Diversity Law Group symposium about the state of African-Americans in the legal profession more than 50 years ago, I contacted Lois Schmidt, the widow of Judge Harvey Schmidt, to see if she had any memorabilia from that era.

By Albert S. Dandridge III

5 minute read

June 26, 2009 | The Legal Intelligencer

On June 12, The Legal Intelligencer and the Pennsylvania Law Weekly, in association with the Philadelphia Diversity Law Group, presented a "Diversity in the Law" luncheon.

By Albert S. Dandridge III

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June 05, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

Having just celebrated Memorial Day, I am reminded that the U.S. Marine Corps, some time ago, had a recruiting campaign that stated: "We do not join you, you join us — The Few. The Proud. The Marines."

By Albert S. Dandridge III

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