Posted on 07/26/2006 8:12:26 PM PDT by flowerplough
As part of a broad push from corporate America to diversify the profession, law firms are stepping up outreach to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) attorneys, a group the Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA) dubs "the invisible bar."
Among the 20 law firms with the highest percentage of openly gay and lesbian attorneys in 2005, these lawyers averaged just 3.2 percent of firm staff, according to The National Law Journal's (NLJ) annual survey of the nation's 250 largest law firms.
Only five of the nation's 20 largest firms reported numbers of openly gay and lesbian attorneys. Within those firms, only 1.8 percent of lawyers were openly gay or lesbian.
(Excerpt) Read more at diversityinc.com ...
Watch the MA courts.
Yep. From time to time.
yup
Right on , lil' j!
Just start by asking how friends they have that practice perversion are they defending the honor of.
Nope. They haven't done any screwing which came to my attention. Does not mean they do not do it, but they must be more discreet in it then. How many "Doctors, Electrical Engineers and Physicists" jokes could you recall? Pretty few, I bet. And how many lawyer jokes? And while the lawyers easily outnumber the physicists and EEs, they do not outnumber doctors that easily. Therefore provoking, and providing material for, jokes must be something specific to the lawyers, as opposed to the other professions you listed. The same is reflected in the degree of trust and respect commanded by different professions. Lawyers and journalists are at the bottom of the heap, IIRC.
So your generalities are anecdotal?
Figures.
Libs think that way too.
Hmmm, since studies put gays at 1.5% of the population, I would say they are over represented.
I have never had a problem with gay people, per se. But my gay friends do not shove their personal lives in my face in graphic detail.
I don't do it to them; what makes them think they should not extend the same courtesy to me?
What this country needs is quotas for middle aged married men. We REALLY are behind the eight ball. Victims R Us, Inc. /snigger
A young doctor had moved into a small town and was setting up a new practice. He had a new sign painted and hung it in front of his office, proclaiming his specialties:
"Homosexuals & Hemorrhoids"
The town fathers were greatly upset with the sign and asked him please to change it. The Doctor was eager to please, so he put up a new sign:
"Queers & Rears"
The town fathers were really fuming about that one, so they demanded that the Doctor come up with a decent sign that would not offend the townspeople. So the Doctor finally came up with an acceptable sign:
"Odds & Ends"
Like a lawyer, you exhibit fellatious reasoning. For something to come to my attention it does not need to be anecdotal - by definition it includes my direct experience, experience of those well known to me, and anecdotal/hearsay.
To get to your intellectual level, it takes one to know one. What happened you made a move on another guy and got punched in the face?
LOL
Those make generalities based on ones experience is a fool. There's this little thing called science involved with proof as opposed to opinion.
Now if you began your worthless opinion by sating it was "an opinion"...then you are welcome to it.
But if you state it as fact without proof...then you just look silly.
Save it. Its not worth your time.
Why don't they reach out to the "circus freak" community while they're at it?
Ah, nothing like ad hominem attacks to raise the level of discourse...
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