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'Appellate Project' Aims to Boost Diversity in Specialized Bar
- During his time as a federal trial and appellate judge in Pennsylvania from 1991 to 1999, Timothy Lewis says, “I could count on half of one hand how many Black lawyers argued before me.”
- When Lewis went to private practice, he often served as a moot court judge for appellate practitioners and did not need a hand to count. “I never mooted a Black lawyer,” he said in an interview Tuesday.
- And that is why Lewis, who is African American, jumped at the opportunity to join the advisory board of The Appellate Project, a new effort to increase diversity in the prestigious but largely male and white-dominated niche practice of appellate law.
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