A law firm shareholder who grew up in a farm culture where Hispanics went into the military or to trade schools wants things to be different for today’s young Hispanics.
Part of the solution for Roman D. Hernandez was playing in a tournament sponsored by the Hispanic National Bar Association in Key Biscayne last weekend to raise scholarship money for Hispanic law students.”The ultimate goal is to increase the number of Hispanic kids who will become lawyers,” said Hernandez, a shareholder with Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt in Portland, Oregon, and president of the association’s Legal Education Fund. “Two weeks before college, I was harvesting onions for 16 cents a bushel. If I hadn’t received that financial aid package, I wouldn’t have been able to go.”
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