Miami's H.T. Smith puts black bar group in gear; a push for more judgeships and more government work for black lawyers is his ambitious agenda

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H.T. Smith, 1994-1995 president of the National Bar Association, is on a crusade to gain more recognition for African American lawyers. Smith hopes to boost the number of blacks on the bench and to make it easier for them to advance once there. Smith realizes that the Republican victory in the 1994 midterm elections will not make his task any easier but vows to persevere. Smith has become a force to be reckoned with in his multi-ethnic home city of Miami, FL. Smith led a boycott of Miami as a tourist destination in the early 1990s to express outrage at police brutality against blacks and blacks' lack of economic opportunity.

Planning, Practice, African American attorneys, African American lawyers, Smith, H.T., National Bar Association

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Heeding the call to fill service gap; in the wake of cuts to legal aid, D.C. lawyers respond to judges' plea to donate their services

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The District of Columbia Bar fashioned an approach to the rise in need for legal services for the poor, and the simultaneous plunge in funding, that other bars should consider adapting to local needs. An ad hoc group urged the four chief judges of the DC and federal courts to call a meeting to which were invited managing partners from all law firms in the District with more than 50 lawyers. This group was asked to choose one of three pro bono options to add to existing pro bono work, with support promised from the bar.

Analysis, Services, Washington, D.C., Pro bono legal services, District of Columbia. Bar

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Three cities, three different law practices; Cleveland, Cincinnati and Columbus offer lawyers diverse environments

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The new opportunities for law firms offered by the state's healthy economy are discussed. The economy switched from the sagging manufacturing base of the late 1980s to high technology, financial services, and foreign exports and imports.

Ohio, Attorneys, Location

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