Larry Lerner

July 18, 2007 - 3:46pm

Lerner's firm, eleven years later: still no women partners

In the 1996 campaign for Congress in New Jersey’s seventh district, GOP incumbent Bob Franks made an issue of the hiring practices of a law firm run by his Democratic challenger, Larry Lerner.  The Westfield firm, Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz and Mentlik, with more than 25 lawyers, had no women employed as attorneys.  Lerner responded that he was a patent and intellectual property lawyer, and since that specialty required some engineering background, it was hard to find qualified women.  Not great spin; Franks won, easily.

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