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¦ From 5 QUESTIONS on PAGE 23 home order and closure of courts
of law, democracy and our justice and businesses, much of the work
system. of the Leveraging Technology to
We have to change people’s Amy Lin Meyerson will Advance the Legal Profession and

mindsets and address issues of take over on July 1 from Law School and Future Lawyers
implicit bias. People of diverse Ndidi Moses as president subcommittees of the State of the
backgrounds are excellent law- Legal Profession Task Force was
yers. Increasing diversity in the of the 10,000-member accelerated and implemented by
legal profession results in better Connecticut Bar the CBA COVID-19 Task Force.
service to our clients, facilitates Association.
In the coming weeks we’ll look
access to justice and improves the to the chairs of both task forces
legal profession as a whole. with outgoing CBA President
CLT: Connecticut recently Ndidi Moses’ continued guidance
joined the ranks of states that have formed task forc- to work collaboratively to present their findings and
es to examine potential changes to the regulation of recommendations on further implementation. ¦
the law industry. The association created the State of
the Legal Profession Task Force. What is your plan Robert Storace covers legal trends, lawsuits and
for the task force and how will you implement it? analysis for the Connecticut Law Tribune. Follow
Meyerson: Due to the global pandemic result- him on Twitter @RobertSCTLaw or reach him at
ing in the governor’s issuance of the stay safe/stay 203-437-5950.

SCOTUS Lawyers Denounce Barr
Over Lafayette Square Incident

By Marcia Coyle
Across-ideological group of U.S. Supreme Justice Department’s office of solicitor general.
Court practitioners and former clerks on Among them were Sidley Austin partner Carter
Thursday called for U.S. Phillips, Mayer Brown partner
Attorney General William Barr to
be held accountable for what they Andrew Frey, Orrick Herrington
& Sutcliffe partners E. Joshua
called the Trump administration’s The statement was signed Rosenkranz and Kelsi Corkran,
“immoral” and “undemocratic” by 79 attorneys, including Ropes & Gray partner Doug-
use of force against protesters in las Hallward-Driemeier, Hogan
Lafayette Square on the evening of 39 former Supreme Court Lovells partner Catherine Stet-
June 8. clerks and 20 alums of the son, and Harvard Law School’s
Justice Department’s office Charles Fried.
“A line was crossed last week.
And we, as lawyers, must speak of solicitor general. The statement also was signed

out to defend it,” the group wrote by a number of former U.S. Justice
in a statement posted on Medium. department lawyers and constitu-
The statement was signed tional law scholars. The statement
by more than 100 attorneys, including 39 for- followed one posted Wednesday, also critical of the
mer Supreme Court clerks and 20 alums of the Justice Department, from more than 1,260 former

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