Schools
Law Percentage of Percentage of Number of
School Hispanic Students Minority Students First-Year Students
Source: Law Schools. All percentages are rounded and represented the class of 2003
enrolled in full-time day programs only.
In the lawyer's field Hispanic lawyers made up only 1.8 percent of the associates in 1996 and at the 250 largest law firms 0.9 percent of the partners were Hispanics in the United States. In the year1997 only 4.7 percent of the federal courts were district judges and 3.6 percent of appellate judges were Hispanics. These numbers are extremely low bar leaders comments "Numbers like those can raise serious questions of credibility for the justice system, say
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