(i) Attorney(s) refers to US-based lawyers only.
(ii) Minority attorney(s) means an individual in any of the following categories:
- Black American
- Hispanic American
- Native American (including American Indian, Eskimo, Aleut, and Native Hawaiian)
- South-Asian American (including a person whose origins are from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka)
- Asian-Pacific American (including a person whose origins are from Cambodia, China, Guam, Japan, Korea, Laos, Northern Marianas, the Philippines, Samoa, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, and the United States Trust Territories of the Pacific)
- A person whose origins are from the Middle East
- Multi-racial
(iii) Senior management means responsibility for a section of the legal department or responsibility for supervision of an attorney who supervises other attorneys.
(iv) Minority law firms” means more than 50% of the law firm’s outstanding equity is owned by minority attorneys.