Honoring diversity.A Mexican American Mexican American n. A U.S. citizen or resident of Mexican descent. Mex  i·can-A·mer Bar Foundation event last week doled out Adj. 1. doled out - given out in portionsapportioned, dealt out, meted out, parceled out distributed - spread out or scattered about or divided up a record $75,000 in scholarships to 15 students of Latino heritage. O'Melveny & Myers LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol , Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Cedar Sinai Medical Center and Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, which donated $15,000, sponsored the Beverly Hilton event. Dr. Cynthia Ann Telles of UCLA's Neuropyschiatric Institute, Counsel to Mayor Villaraigosa, Thomas A. Saenz and U.S. Representative Hilda Soils (D-Ca.) also were honored. The size and scope of this year's awards represents some impressive growth for the fund. In 1998, the foundation awarded a total of $6,000 to six students attending Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. area law schools, and last year it handed out $40,000 to thirteen students. The foundation credits the increase in donations over eight years to a growing awareness among major law firms This list of the world's largest law firms by revenue is taken from The Lawyer and The American Lawyer and is ordered by 2006 revenue:[1]
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