versity School of Law in the mid-1980's the only Hispanics she encountered were the defendants listed in the pages of her criminal law text book".(Rivkin, Victoria. 2000 pg.1). This was terrible to only encounter Hispanics under that circumstance. Now in the twenty first century little has changed the number of Hispanics attending law school in those years are about the same now.
             Looking at the statistics for the year of 1999 we see that "U.S. Census Bureau, Hispanics constituted 11.7 percent of the American population. In the 1999-2000 school year, only 5.7 percent of the law school student body nationwide were Hispanic, according to the American Bar Association. And the number of Hispanic attorneys is even lower: just 2.5 percent of the country's lawyers are Hispanic, according to the ABA.(Rivkin, Victoria. 2000 pg.1). The Bureau of the Census also projected that Hispanics are going to become the nations largest minority group by about the year two thousand and ten. We would also be the largest single population group by the end of the twenty second century.
             Looking into the percentage of law students in the past two to three years minorities continue carrying the lowest percentage. Out of the minority group Hispanics carry the lowest of all. In the 1999-2000yrs American Bar Association accredited law
             students blacks made up 7.4 percent Asian American made up 6.3 percent and Hispanic
             made up 5.6 percent. The total of law students was 125,184 and from that only 7,120 were Hispanic in the past year. In the 1997-1998 American Bar Association 7.2 percent were African American, 6 percent were Asian American and 5.5 percent were Hispanics. We are increasing very slowly but this is not yet were we want to be. In the near future we will see a difference. In the chart annexed you will see the Hispanic first year students at New York Law Schools for the class of 2003.
             Hispanic First-year Students at New York Law ...