‘We will not stay silent and sit idly by’

As a Latina lawyer, I am acutely aware that there are not enough attorneys who “look like me” in the profession. Industry statistics show that diverse attorney representation lags significantly behind their non-diverse counterparts. According to the American Bar Association’s National Lawyer Population Survey in 2020, Hispanics comprise 5% of all attorneys, African Americans 5%, Asians 2%, and other ethnic minorities make up 2%.