Whether legal markets are dynamic and robust or tenuous and tentative, associates of color will typically confront unique and more daunting career challenges than their white counterparts. And, even though no racial and/or ethnic group was left unscathed during the most recent economic downturn, recent quantitative and anecdotal data strongly suggest that associates of color suffered disproportionately in comparison to their peers.
The numerical data were confirmed when the Minority Law Journal conducted its 2009 Minority Experience Study, which included responses from The American Lawyer’s Midlevel Associates survey conducted in the spring of 2009. The American Lawyer survey covered 6,101 third-, fourth-, and fifth-year associates at 165 law firms and included 4,592 whites, 556 Asian-Americans, 211 Latinos, and 169 African-Americans.
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