Robert Clayton was interviewed by Julie Triedman of The American Lawyer in “A Young Obama Ponders Problem of Minority Retention at Big Firms” on July 24, 2014. From the article: “A quarter‐century ago, Robert “Dean” Clayton was associate dean at Tulane Law School and had just founded the Texas/Tulane Minority Clerkship Program, a groundbreaking and successful effort that placed scores of minority first‐year law students in Am Law 100 firms and Fortune 50 law departments until its disbandment in 1995. As an authority on legal diversity efforts, Clayton found himself quoted alongside a 28‐year‐old summer associate in a July 1990 story in The Chicago Reporter, “Law Firms Still Lag in Minority Hiring,” which noted that black partners represented a stagnant 1.2 percent of all partners in Chicago firms. That associate was Barack Obama. Fast‐forward to today, and the percentage of black partners has remained stuck at 1.9 percent for five years.”