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Education

Aug. 18, 2011

Law academies: California’s answer to growing our future

A new program hopes to inspire students to consider a future career in the law. By Ruthe Catolico Ashley of the ABA's Commission on Women in the Profession


By Ruthe Catolico Ashley


The educational pipeline is not a new concept. In 2000, William Paul, the American Bar Association (ABA) president, created a new council to focus on the educational pipeline as a way to diversify the legal profession of the future. The Presidential Advisory Council was created 14 years after the birth of the ABA's Commission on Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession. Yet the statistics for diversifying the profession continue...

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