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Tagged with: Diversity & Inclusion Diversity & Inclusion 2018

While the celebration of our differences as humans continues to grow throughout society, we all know there are hurdles yet to be cleared. Missouri’s legal community is a microcosm of those efforts and challenges. The American Bar Association leads the ...

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When you talk to Blake Strode about what he wants, you’ll learn that his ambitions are not for himself. His ambitions lie in transforming the justice system so that the services offered meet the needs required. It’s a tall order, ...

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Lawyers are busy people. They have cases to try, briefs to file, contracts to review and clients to keep happy. They work long days, tracked in tenth-of-an-hour increments. How do you get them to care about diversity and inclusion — ...

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Reuben Shelton chuckles a bit about his decision to become an attorney. “In my life I saw that the folks who made the most change in society were either lawyers or preachers,” he said. “I knew I probably wasn’t going ...

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As the first member of her immediate family to graduate from college, Tamee V. Reese had her career planned out from the start. “I’ve always wanted to become a lawyer,” said Reese, now assistant vice president and senior legal counsel ...

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Keith Price wanted to be known as one thing: a great attorney. He knew that after he graduated from law school at Baylor University and joined the St. Louis firm of Davis, Davis, Kasnetz & Greenberg. Still, even though he ...

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Law firms often tout their numbers of diverse staff, but Christopher Pickett knows that data doesn’t always tell the story. And most of the data regarding diversity in the legal field doesn’t tell a positive one. Law firms might pursue ...

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When Michelle Wimes was in her teens, she was exactly the kind of person you’d predict would become a lawyer. “I was one of these people who always stood up and spoke up for other people,” said Wimes, who has ...

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Civil-rights attorney J. Justin Meehan believes that if you live in a community, you shouldn’t just take from it — you’ve got to give back. In 40 years of practicing law in St. Louis, he said that’s what he’s tried ...

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For Kim Jones, becoming an attorney was the back-up plan. Working to further social justice was not. When she did not get into the master’s-degree program she initially wanted to complete, she changed course. It led her to a vocation ...

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