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~It.,.~ "· C. II Est. 1168 Which Lawyers ~e.Disciplined? ~ ·New·Portrai't · . '?.-1 ·5~ Most Corne From A~credited Schools; Practiced for Decade 556":J California Lawyer -Survey I.{ ' B_y Jame~ Evans DailyJou rnt1 I S111.JJ R cporttr ' SAN FRANCISCO - A majority of the lawyers disciplined by. the S_tate Bar of California are males in their 40s who )lave been in practice for more than lO' Y.ears andwho graduated froman accreclited laW"'' school, according to a new study. · / Most of those disciplined attorneys alsq •practice alone or in small finns, according to a report on the study published in the Fqy such a short statement, R obert Fell- meth 's blast at unaccredited law schools has stirred up a surprising amount of an- ger. Page 9. 4 ·

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A black and white picture of local legal profession Few blacks applying to law firms

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They make up 10 percent of n Diego's population but only 1 percent of the local legal community. The national average is higher - 3 percent.

By Jamie Reno Tribune Staff Writer E ARLIER THIS YEAR, Regina Petty became the first black woman part- ner at Gray, Cary, Ames & Frye, San Diego's largest law firm. Yet, when she enters a courtroom, attor- neys often assume she is a court reporter or a legal secretary. They've been doing that ever since she became an attorney in San Diego, soon after graduating from Stanford Law school. "It amuses and saddens me that these stereotypes still exist," said Petty. "Some people in San Diego are still not ready to see blacks as attorneys." Petty contends that this attitude has con- tributed to the dearth of black attorneys not only in San Diego but nationwide. The numbers here speak for themselves. While San Diego blacks make up about 10 percent - or 100,000 - of the city's estimat- ed 1million residents, 1 percent of the city's 8,000 lawyers are black, according to the Earl B. Gilliam Bar Association, an organi- zation se-rvmg black attorneys. Of San Diego's 85 black lawyers - 52 of them men and 33 women - only three are partners in firms with 50 lawyers or more. Two of them, Petty and Bill McCurine, work for Gray, Cary. While figure comparing San Diego with other cities are not available, Dennis Archer, a Michigan Supreme Court justice and legal activist, said San Diego's situation is bleaker than most cities. "The legal profession is just beginning to make some strides in recruiting black students and applicants," said Archer, past president of the National Bar Association, the nation's largest minority legal organization. "Blacks are just beginning to recognize that the legal profession is opening up its doors, which, for so many years, were closed to them. The numbers in San Diego, however, are still particularly low." Vickie Turner, a black partner at Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps, said black attorneys perceive San Diego as inhospitable, and, therefore, unattractive. Among the reasons: • Negative national publicity over the Sagon Penn case, which involved the shooting in 1985 of two police officers by a young San Diego black man. • The debate over naming Market Street and now the soon-to-open San Diego Convention Center after civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In addition, said Petty, "There are very few role mod- els here, and there isn't much of a support group for black attorneys. The feeling among many blacks I talk to, unfortunately, is that San Diego does not have an identifiably strong black community." Still, Petty interviewed with law firms in several major cities before deciding that Gray, Cary was the one most likely to give her hands-on experience and to have a black partner in the near future. "If reality were as bad as perception," Turner said, "I

Tribune photo by Chris Cavanaugh Vickie Turner, left, and Regina Petty are truly a minority: black women Jaw partners practicing in San Diego wouldn't be a partner today." The only black graduate from her Universitr of San

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Diego Law S£hooJ class who stayed here aftersnepassed ~e bar, Turner says her fellow black graduates felt cit- ies such as Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York and Chicago would offer better opportunities. "I don't believe San Diego is a racist city overall, hut the perception that it is still exists," said Turner. "Law firms here n~ to _step up efforts to recruit black appli- cants. There JS obvious room for improvement." .While t~e situation is slightly brighter elsewhere, it's still a national problem. According to a recent American Bar Association report, only 3 percent or some 25 000 of the nation's 715,000 attorneys are black. The Jaw s~h~I picture is a bit more encouraging: Of the nation's 120,694 law students, 6,321 - or 5 percent - are black. much-p_ublicized incident in Chicago recently, in which a s~mor partner in the world's largest Jaw firm made racJSt remarks to a black applicant, illustrates wh~t some_ blacks see as a prevailing attitude among the wh1te-dommated legal profession. ,Accordin~ to several newspaper accounts, Harry 0 Kane, semor partner of Baker and McKenzie was a~cused of making racist remarks to an applic~nt, a th1rd-year law student at the University of Chicago. He was subsequently asked to resign. Publicity over the incident prompted several Jaw schools to ban the firm from recruiting. The schools in- clude the University of Chicago, Stanford, the University Please see LAWYERS: D-5, Col. J

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The San Diego llistork will ave its annual Psy1 Oct. 7 at Villa Montezuma ety's museum house, 1925 R are 1 to s p.m. for the ev_ent readings by local psychics IO-minute ions. For more information, P 2211.

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