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Law Practice

Apr. 9, 2015

Law firms, schools, bar groups struggle to boost diversity in the legal profession

There are many programs in California and the U.S. that aim at improving diversity in the educational pipeline. But the number of minority lawyers has only barely increased.


By Don J. DeBenedictis


Daily Journal Staff Writer


The first time Brandon Frank took the LSAT, it didn't go as well as he hoped. But then, he'd never taken a standardized test before.


Reared largely by his grandmother in an economically disadvantaged home in Sacramento, he went to community college before transferring to UCLA, thus bypassing the SAT. Although he graduated from UCLA in 2012 with a philosophy major and a 3.5 grade point a...

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