'Challenges Begin Much Earlier' - Law.com

What You Need to Know

• Law firms Morris James and Burns White have announced strategic partnerships with nearby academic institutions to support aspiring lawyers of color.
• Both firms say diversity and inclusion are key founding values and fall in line with their efforts to make their workforces more diverse.
• Firm and academic leaders say the costs around law school admissions can be prohibitive, especially to students of color.

When leaders from Delaware-based midsize law firm Morris James last week toured the First State in search of an academic institution to financially support, they expected to hear that the bar exam posed the most significant barrier to underrepresented students pursuing a legal career.

Dawn Sheiker, the firm’s director of client relations, said they learned that “the challenges begin much earlier.”

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source: https://www.law.com/thelegalintelligencer/2021/09/28/challenges-begin-much-earlier-law-firms-focused-on-diversity-are-getting-involved-before-lsats/

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