Summary
“I am the one thing in life I can control / I am inimitable, I am an original.” — Lin-Manuel Miranda, “Wait for it, Hamilton”
Last week, the American Bar Association (ABA) hosted a webinar titled Combatting Bias and Increasing Inclusion in the Legal Profession.
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RC: It was great chatting with you. Is there anything else you would like to share with our audience?
MS: There’s a great book that Professor Deborah Rhode at Stanford wrote called Lawyers as Leaders. And she points out that even though lawyers are less than half a percent of this country’s population, we are very well-represented in every level of leadership in this country. We are government leaders, community leaders, philanthropic leaders, leaders of business and leaders in business. Twenty-five lawyers signed the Declaration of Independence. Twenty-six of this country’s 45 presidents have been lawyers.
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