Veta Richardson recalls that during the summer of 2009 — amid one of the recent economic downturn’s bleaker stretches — the phone calls from worried minority lawyers never seemed to let up.
Many of the callers were bracing for their firms to announce layoffs; others had already lost their jobs and were hoping that Richardson, the executive director of the Minority Corporate Counsel Association, might be able to supply job leads or job-hunting advice. “I could barely keep up with all the calls and messages I was getting,” she says.
