Byline: Joyce Gannon

Oct. 8--Nicola Henry-Taylor, an attorney who has lived and worked in Pittsburgh for more than a decade, became involved with the Allegheny County Bar Association's Women in the Law division last year when she was looking to jump from a government job to a position in the private sector.

One of the first things she noticed was a lack of minorities among the lawyers she met at legal events.

"I saw some minority attorneys at luncheons but knew there were more," said Henry-Taylor, who is 35, African-American and, since January, a conflicts coordinator at Downtown firm K&L Gates.

Determined to pull more minority lawyers together, she set out to ...