State Bar & Bar Associations
Jul. 22, 2011
Transactions Lawyer Takes Helm of L.A. Bar
As the Los Angeles County Bar Association's first openly gay president, Eric A. Webber of Irell & Manella LLP hopes to encourage diversity in the profession for personal and practical reasons.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - As the Los Angeles County Bar Association's new president, Eric A. Webber of Irell & Manella LLP, laments one of the recession's less discussed casualties - diversity in the legal profession.
During the bloodbath of law firm layoffs that occurred in late 2008 and early 2009, older and more senior white male attorneys tended to keep their jobs while their younger, less exper...
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