Inside Report (1)
Women and blacks are making slow, steady inroads into the ranks of US barristers.
Other minorities, however - Hispanics, for example - are disportionately underrepresented in the nation's large law firms. A National Law Journal Survey of 151 large law offices shows that despite these gains, minorities are still in short supply on the rosters of prestigious legal groups. The future looks brightest for women - 35 percent of the current crop of law students in the US are females.
Blacks constitute 4.5 percent of these enrollments; Hispanics only 2.5 percent.m
