Bloomberg Law
Aug. 2, 2017, 11:05 PM UTC

Asian Americans Still Face Barriers In Legal Industry

Stephanie Russell-Kraft

When Andrew T. Hahn, Sr. took his first job as an Army lawyer in 1986, he was excited to see that one of his bosses in the JAG Corps, Brigadier General John Liu Fugh, was a fellow Asian American. Hahn, who emigrated to the United States with his parents from Korea when he was a toddler, saw Fugh as a role model.

“I thought, oh that’s great,” he said in an interview.

But, when in 1990 he moved to New York City to take a job at now-defunct white shoe firm Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Irvine, he was confronted with ...

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