Robert James Grey Jr. is an American lawyer. He served as president of the
American Bar Association
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from 2004 to 2005. He was previously a partner with the
Richmond, Virginia
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-based law firm of
Hunton & Williams. In January 2010, he was named executive director of the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity, an organization created in 2009 to advance diversity in the legal profession.
In March 2010, he was confirmed by the
United States Senate
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as a member of the board of the
Legal Services Corporation
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, the nation's largest provider of civil legal assistance to the poor.
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External links
Leadership Council on Legal Diversity
Living people
Lawyers from Richmond, Virginia
Washington and Lee University School of Law alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Presidents of the American Bar Association
People associated with Hunton Andrews Kurth
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