The State - News from Sept. 15, 1988

Mayors of California’s six largest cities were urged to require law firms with whom they do business to reveal the number of racial minorities the firms employ as lawyers. In a letter to Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley and others, the Latino Issues Forum, a San Francisco-based civil rights group, called for adoption of a “truth in bidding” policy that also would require law firms to state their goals for increasing the number of minorities holding positions as partners. The group cited data first issued last February by the National Law Journal that showed, among other things, that 18 of the state’s 30 largest law firms had no Latino partners. The letter was also sent to the mayors of Sacramento, San Diego, San Jose, Oakland and Fresno.