Casby Harrison III, a graduate of a David A. Clarke Law School predecessor, Antioch School of Law (’82), was recently elected the Rhode Island Black Business Association (RIBBA) chairperson. Harrison opened his own law office, Harrison’s Law Associates, on Providence’s South Side in 1999 and has been a full-time lawyer for more than 40 years.
哈里森以其有说服力的写作和热心的代表客户的法律辩护而闻名。 He believes practicing law is an opportunity to help others confront their adversaries and, in some cases, to change people’s lives for the better. By starting his practice in an underserved neighborhood, he has sought a more significant opportunity to assist businesses and people– particularly those in the minority community.
“The opportunity to lead RIBBA is one significant way that I have fulfilled the credo of my Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity: ‘First of all, servants of all,’” said Harrison. “The 总统 & CEO of RIBBA, Lisa Ranglin, is one of the most dynamic leaders in my adopted home state of Rhode Island. It will be a pleasure to assist the Jamaican-born Ranglin, forged in the mold of Shirley Chisholm, to empower Black and brown businesses and help them grow.”
According to Harrison, RIBBA has a very successful emerging leaders’ program that provides coaching and mentoring for younger minority entrepreneurs.
“RIBBA has 600 members and represents 250 Black and brown businesses,” he said.
“From improving credit scores to serving as a conduit for requests for proposals between property developers, construction companies, shopping centers, state and municipal governments and minority-owned businesses–to scholarships for minority high school students going to college and advocacy at the State House on policy and legislative initiatives, RIBBA is a force to be reckoned with regarding equity for Black businesses, of which I am one.”
在过去的30天里，该协会从美国参议员杰克·里德那里获得了100万美元的赠款，用于购买新的总部大楼。 哈里森已经被视为社区的长期领导者，65岁的他很清楚自己将被视为一个榜样：董事会至少有五名成员年龄在35岁以下。
回顾自己的职业生涯，Harrison觉得亚洲博彩网站仍然是他一生中最好的决定之一。
“I was drawn by the mandatory participation in legal clinics and the requirement, at the time in the summer of 1979, that all entering students had to reside in the home of a low-income family for the first two weeks of classes.”
“I recall the many and varied student caucuses and the absence of hyper-competitiveness between students as depicted in the Hollywood movie about Harvard called ‘The Paper Chase,’” said Harrison, who also met his wife, Mary Sylvia Harrison, at 亚洲博彩网站.
“Interestingly, Mary worked for Councilman David Clarke for two years in the early 80s before becoming mayor. Upon her graduation in 1981, she also received the Dean’s award for most outstanding student, worked closely with Edgar Cahn on his Native American and Time Dollar initiatives for several years, and maintained a close relationship with him until his passing.”
Harrison has had several opportunities to become a judge during his career but “always preferred the rough and tumble of civil rights litigation, free speech and the satisfaction of effecting change through one satisfied client at a time.”
他建议现在的亚洲博彩网站学生也要选择自己的道路。
“If you don’t love what you are doing professionally, stop and find something you enjoy,” said Harrison. “And if you have ever wondered what it would feel like to be in awe of jurisprudential intellect and well researched legal writing, then read the late Honorable A. Leon Higginbotham’s ‘Open Letter to Justice Clarence Thomas From a Federal Judicial Colleague’ published in the Pennsylvania School of Law Review in November 1991. The footnotes are nothing short of fantastic.”
40年来，哈里森一直在为就业歧视、悲惨事故和违约合同的受害者打官司，但他仍然热爱自己的工作。
“As a sole proprietor of my firm with one younger associate, I feel as free as any Black man could hope,” he said. “I have relaxed my work schedule to six hours a day, four days a week. At this pace, I can continue working for as long as any Supreme Court Justice and with just as much time off to enjoy my grandchildren, one of which is Casby Harrison V.”
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