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Civil Rights

Mar. 20, 2008

Minorities at California Firms - but Not on Top

Although law firms have made progress in recruiting, retaining and promoting minority and female lawyers, the fruits of these efforts have not reached the top management ranks, according to most of the people interviewed for this article, including attorney Bruce Ishimatsu.

By Rebecca U. Cho
Daily Journal Staff Writer
This article appears on Page 1.

      LOS ANGELES - The top can be a lonely place at big law firms.
      As the only woman and minority on her firm's executive committee, Lorainne McGowan, a New York partner at San Francisco-based Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, knows she is a rare success story in the world of big firms.
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