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  • March 2023
CCCBA Drives Effort to Exonerate the Port Chicago 50

The Contra Costa County Bar Association formed the Port Chicago Task Force after the CCCBA DEI Committee presented a November 2021 program about the Port Chicago Disaster that occurred near Concord in 1944 and the historical injustice of the mutiny trial. The CCCBA Port Chicago Taskforce is comprised of CCCBA member attorneys as well as...

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  • diversity
  • March 2023
Confronting Systemic Pay Bias in the Legal Community with New Legislation

Women with law degrees earn $0.89 for every dollar earned by men with a law degree.9 Women hold the majority of legal occupations at 52% women and 48% men. However, legal had the largest uncontrolled gender wage gap in the study at $0.63.

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