The Philadelphia Bar Association’s first director of the office for diversity left the position last week after less than two years on the job. And the bar association leadership is going to change how it tackles the issue of diversity in the legal profession by installing a high-level volunteer in the cabinet made up of the officers of the Board of Governors.
Ken Shear, executive director of the bar association, said that the reason for Sean Lincoln’s departure was a personnel issue that he wouldn’t comment on. It is Shear, rather than the elected chancellor, who is responsible for the association’s personnel decisions.
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