 | Marcia Madsen, Acquisition Advisory Panel Chair, Releases Report Findings
Testifies Before Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
WASHINGTON, DC - The Acquisition Advisory Panel, chaired by Mayer, Brown partner, Marcia Madsen, recently released its final report to Congress and the Office of Management & Budget. The 13-member panel, created by Congress and appointed by the White House, was charged with reviewing federal acquisition laws, regulations and policies, and making recommendations for reform. Read >>
| |  | Lawyer Turns Each Challenge Into Teaching Experience
Mary Richardson-Lowry has always been drawn to the big deals and large legal challenges, which has often meant she's the only
African-American woman at the negotiation table. Read >>
Reprinted with permission from Chicago Lawyer, July 2007.
| | | Expanding Latino Participation in the Legal Profession: Strategies for Increasing Latino Law School Enrollments
Increasing minority representation in the legal profession has concerned the bar since the civil rights movement. Yet the numbers remain appallingly low. In 1999, William G. Paul, the former President of the American Bar Association, noted that while thirty percent of Americans were members of racial or ethnic minorities, a full ninety-two percent of the nation's lawyers were white. He predicted that, if current trends continue, the legal profession's ethnic mix would fall even further behind in the next fifty years. Read >>
(This article was originally printed in the Fordham Urban Law Journal as Expanding Latino Participation in the Legal Profession, 30 Fordham Urb. L.J. 1393 (2002-2003)) | |
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