Anji Malhotra,
co-author of a study released by the University at Buffalo and Cornell law schools based on two years
of research into Buffalo Police Department policing practices, joined other activists Tuesday on the steps
of City Hall
to call for
action to be taken against what they
called discriminatory policing practices.
d) sharing with your readership the empirical evidence you and your
co-authors examined prior
to establishing the underlying premise (for the sake
of brevity, let's
call it: «it's happening faster than we thought, and
action is required, now... so how can we best communicate this?»)
They include Paulette Brown
of Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge, who
co-authored the landmark 2006 report, Visible Invisibility: Women
of Color in Law Firms; R. Ted Cruz
of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, the first Hispanic
to be Texas solicitor general and author
of more than 70 Supreme Court briefs; John W. Daniels
of Quarles & Brady, one
of the first African - Americans
to lead a top U.S. firm; Keith M. Harper
of Kilpatrick Stockton, a Cherokee who heads his firm's Native American affairs practice group; Patricia Menendez - Cambo, co-chair
of Greenberg Traurig's global practice group; General Mills GC Roderick A. Palmore, who, as GC at Sara Lee, spearheaded the
Call to Action urging corporate law firms
to diversify; and Anthony D. Romero, executive director
of the ACLU.
In the wake
of the recent tragedy in Middletown, Connecticut, involving the murder
of a baby by his father, business litigation partner Edward J. Heath
co-authored with Jamey Bell, executive director
of Greater Hartford Legal Aid (GHLA), the article «A
Call to Action: Connecticut Lawyers Partner with Legal Aid and Area Shelters
to Help Victims
of Domestic Violence.»