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Law Practice

Apr. 19, 2013

Tort plaintiff bar associations redouble diversity effort

Bar associations for lawyers who represent tort plaintiffs, such as Consumer Attorneys of California, are working to overcome longstanding difficulties enticing minority lawyers to join.


By Don J. DeBenedictis


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Diana Lopez is the president-elect of the Orange County Hispanic Bar Association and a tort plaintiffs lawyer in Orange, but she knew nothing about the Orange County Trial Lawyers Association until recently, when she met her counterpart from the local tort plaintiffs bar group. Jamon R. Hicks is president of the California Association for Black Lawyers and a lawyer with the Cochran Firm in Los Angeles in...

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