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Number of Minority Lawyers Up, Female Lawyers Down in 2011

Law firm diversity took a hit in 2010, but the picture improved somewhat this year — at least when it came to ethnic diversity. The percentage of minority lawyers at major U.S. law firms ticked up slightly this year, from 12.4 percent to 12.7 percent, according to the latest edition of the NALP Directory of Legal Employers, released on Nov. 3.  That means there were about 372 more minority attorneys this year.  But the percentage of women attorneys at law firms continued a slide that began in 2010. Women accounted for 32.6 percent of law firm lawyers this year, compared to 32.7 in 2010, according to the NALP survey. That represented a decline of about 123 female attorneys among the 123,012-attorney sample. Click here to read more.
 
 



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