The Americans with Disabilities Act is the most recent major piece of civil rightslegislation and it is generating massive litigation. Given the aging of the baby boom generation and the pace of consolidation, age discrimination issues will continue to arise. Like other forms of discrimination, age discrimination isoften hard to detect. The legal employment marketplace has changed, slowly but inexorably, over the past 20 years. Law firms will continue to become more diverse because of business pressure to do so.
Law firms diversify when they lose business to more diverse firms.
The formal mechanisms, like the California Minority Law Council, and the informal bonds among women and people of color will continue to profoundly change the makeup of law firms. Immediate Past President of the Association of Business Trial Lawyers, and Chair of the Employer-Employee Relations Committee of the ABA's Tort and Insurance Practice Section. Neither transmission nor receipt of this information is intended to or does create an attorney-client relationship. All information provided is of a general nature, may not reflect the most recent developments in the law, is not a substitute for legal advice pertaining to a specific situation, and should not be acted on by readers without obtaining advice from legal or other professional counsel applicable to a particular set of facts.