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Uses national and Florida-specific statistics to show underrepresentation of racial and ethnic minorities, especially Black professionals, and discusses downstream consequences for participation, trust in the legal system, and proportional representation in courts. 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Hilton is director of the Center for African American Research and Policy, Madison, Wisconsin, and was assistant vicepresident for inclusion initiativesat Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MIchigan, at the time this article was written. Marybeth Gasman is a professor of higher education in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. J. Luke Wood isan assistant professor in the Department of Administration, Rehabilitation, and Postsecondary Education in the College of Education at San Diego State University, San Diego, California.  \nThe Impact of One Florida Initiative on Florida’s Public Law Schools: A Critical Race Theory Analysis  \nBy AdrielA. Hilton, Marybeth Gasman,& J. Luke Wood  \nFor years, the legal profession in the United States has offered various initiatives intended to increase minority representation (e.g., internships, mentoring programs, etc.) . However, these initiatives have had minimal success in diversifying the ranks of the legal community (Glater, 2001) . Sadly, the dearth of minorities, especially Blacks, in the legal profession asa whole, is compounded asthe nation’slaw schools continue tobe woefully lacking in the enrollment of racial and ethnic minorities (“Among the,” 2007) .  \nWhile underrepresentation is pervasive throughout the legal profession, even greater levels of nonminority overrepresentation occur in elite law firms (Barker, 2005; Glater, 2001) . Data from large U.S. law firms indicates a similar trend. Between 2008 and 2009, the 200 largest law firms in the country terminated 6 percent of their attorneys. Minority lawyers were disproportionately af-  \nfected by terminations, with 8% of minority lawyers losing their jobs. However, not all minority group representation was affected at the same rate. African American lawyers and partners were disproportionately impacted during this time, as 13% of Black lawyers were lost. In other words, one in every six Black nonpartners was let go. Further, the number of Black partners also declined, decreasing by 16%(Barker, 2010) .  \nIn Florida’s legal profession, the landscape is similar to the nation as a whole. There is a lack of production in minority law graduates, which has largely been attributed to their lack of access to, and representation in, publicly supported law schools (Herbert, 1999). For example, in 2004 the Florida Bar Association (FBA) reported 74,125 members, of whom only 43,007 reported their race. Of the 43,007 reported number, minorities made up less than 10% . By comparison, minorities represented more than 20% of Florida’s population during this period (U.S. Census, 2002). This suggests a lack of proportional representation, whereby the percentage of minorities in the state was not reflected in the profession (Wood, 2008). The lack of representation of Blacks in the legal profession mirrors that of enrollment disparities in Florida law schools, where Blacks (308 students) lagged behind Whites (1,808 students) and Hispanics (405 students) during 2006.  \nNationally, theAmerican BarAssociation (ABA) has found that the percentage of minorities enrolled in law schools has decreased in recent years (Mallory, 2005) . Decreasing minority representation in law schools was identified atthe beginning of the millennium, when Chambliss (2004) found that the percentage of minority law school students had diminished“from 20.6% in 2001-2002 to 20.3% in 2003-2004”(p. 2). Chambliss described the reduction of minority enrollment in the profession as “extremely troubling”(p. 2). However, what Chambliss identified was not part of temporary ebb in law school representation, but rather, a more pronounced longterm trend. In an analysis of 15 years of law school data from 1992 to 2008, the Society of American Law Teachers (2009) reported that the percentage enrollment of Black and Hispanic law students decreased by 8.6% .  \nThe Miles to Go study conducted by the ABA’s Commission on Racia","cbCaipoRyMN8olOA","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaipoRyMN8olOA","pdf",117527,14,"English","# The Initiative and Minority Representation\n## Underrepresentation in the Legal Profession\n## Florida’s Law School and Bar Representation Patterns\n## National Trends in Enrollment and Long-Term Decline\n## Effects on Trust and Court Participation\n## Policy Context: Affirmative Action and Legal Rulings","[{\"question\":\"What does the analysis argue about the effectiveness of initiatives aimed at increasing minority representation?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that initiatives intended to increase minority representation in the U.S. legal profession have had minimal success in diversifying the ranks of the legal community.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the document describe minority representation in Florida compared with the broader U.S. landscape?\",\"answer\":\"It states that Florida shows similar patterns, including a lack of proportional representation of minorities among law graduates and in publicly supported law school enrollment and related professional participation.\"},{\"question\":\"What consequences does the analysis link to the underrepresentation of Black lawyers?\",\"answer\":\"It suggests underrepresentation contributes to distrust of the legal system and that Black plaintiffs and defendants may be less likely to participate in cases with lawyers and judges who share their racial/ethnic affiliation.\"}]","The Impact of One Florida Initiative on Florida’s Public Law Schools - A Critical Race Theory Analysis | PDF",1792094778,35]