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Through an internship, teenagers get a taste of working in a private firm, corporate law division or government agency. They visit courtrooms, attend trials, hear motions and network with legal professionals.
Our society’s long-overdue reckoning with racial inequities is not a full-blown offensive to correct 246 years of racial disparities in America. It’s more like baby steps designed to start making our institutions more reflect the makeup of our population.
Tannera Gibson becomes the Memphis Bar Association’s first Black female president. She succeeds Peter Gee, the organization’s first Asian American president.
A few local, socially conscious judges acknowledged institutional problems with unconscious bias, and they spearheaded the founding of the Center for Excellence in Decision-Making.
Attorneys in Memphis march against racism in the community and legal system during a "unity march."
Three community legal groups will work together through the new 901 Legal Connect website to help low-income area residents with civil legal matters.
The Memphis Bar Association gave its Judge Jerome Turner Lawyer's Lawyer Award to Charlie Newman, the conservationist-minded lawyer at Burch, Porter & Johnson whose work has changed the city's landscape.
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