Posted on 09/18/2021 1:07:14 PM PDT by Zap Brannigan
I am a partner at one of the top 25 national law firms. I have been practicing law for more than 20 years. The dream of Martin Luther King is rapidly being extinguished by the new cadre of woke culture warriors. Never in my career have I observed such unabashed discrimination against white males as I have seen in the past 12-18 months.
We represent many major life sciences companies, corporations whose names would be familiar to all of you. Our clients have become militant in regulating the skin color and gender of the attorneys who are staffed on their matters. They all require us to provide race/gender breakdowns of the attorneys at the Firm.
Recently, one of my female partners led a three person team to a pitch meeting with a prospective client with whom we already have a relationship. She took two highly-qualified white male partners to accompany her to the meeting. After the meeting she was pulled aside by in-house counsel and chastised for bringing the two white males to the meeting. She was informed it was "tone deaf" and could not happen again.
Another major life sciences client has given us actual quotas. Including that 40% of the staff time on their matters be by women and 10% by underrepresented minorities. If the quotas are not met we will lose all work from them. This particular client has also insisted we provide gender/race breakdowns for attorneys staffed on their matters who work in Europe, even though providing such data is illegal according to the laws in many EU countries. Amazingly, this client has also offered to "assist" my firm in deciding who we should internally promote.
The vast majority of my partners are on the East Coast and are hardcore liberals. So the foregoing does not conceptually bother them other than figuring out how to comply with the mandates. When it was pointed out to the white female partner who took the two white males to the client meeting that she has two sons, the notion that they could be subject to the same kind of discrimination was lost on her.
In any event, just wanted to vent and give some insight into what is happening in my industry. I expect quotas and overt gender and racial discrimination against white males to become more and more normalized. Indeed, when commercials come on TV, do any of you also play the game "find the white guy"?
The speech was the sales pitch. BLM is the actual product.
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