He hands out bootstraps; deportee's son is first Hispanic to be ABA's minorities advocate
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Jose Gaitan, the new chair of the ABA Commission on Opportunities for Minorities in the Profession, would like during his tenure to complete studies of minority attorneys in-house and as partners in law firms, persuade courts to set up special commissions aimed at eliminating racial and ethnic bias from the judicial system, and develop a national consortium of judges to increase minority court clerks. Gaitan's mentoring program, in which members of the legal community will work with underprivileged children, is his favorite.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1998
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In his organization, life begins at 50
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Steven Zaleznick, the general counsel of the American Ass'n of Retired Persons, considered by Fortune Magazine to be the nation's most powerful lobbying organization, heads a department of four lawyers and has an annual legal budget of about $2 mil. For litigation he employs mostly outside counsel because he does not consider his department staffed to handle that. The association has a legal advocacy group, outside of the general counsel's office, which works quite a bit in the age discrimination area.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1997
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