This month I began my 12th year at Duane Morris and my 32nd year as a member of the Philadelphia legal community. When I came to the bar, with very few exceptions, diversity of races did not exist in the large Philadelphia legal institutions.
This was not because there were not qualified lawyers of color, but because of unwritten traditions and policies. When I moved my practice to a large firm environment in 1991, the number of diverse attorneys in most places could be counted in single digits.
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