Lack of Filipino lawyers: Contributing factors | Warren Urquhart

By Warren Urquhart ( July 28, 2020, 10:29 AM EDT) -- As discussed in part one of this series, the state of Filipino representation in Ontario is abysmal. Filipinos are fourth largest immigrant group in Ontario. The number of Filipino lawyers is statistically insignificant to the point that we do not get our own row in the Law Society of Ontario’s annual reporting chart of racialized lawyers. We’re grouped with our Japanese and Korean colleagues under “East Asians” — an amount in 2016 that was 1.3 per cent of lawyers, about half of the total share Filipinos have in Ontario’s population....

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