Law Firms and Aggressive Racial Preferences
John Leo, columnist for U.S. News and World Report, has this interesting piece about law firms and the downside of aggressive racial preferences.
Here’s a quote: “Blacks account for only 1 or 2 percent of law students with high grades, yet they make up 8 percent of lawyers hired by large law firms.”
Interesting math! Interesting that when it comes to employment opportunities for attorneys, the math is much more important than the law.
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There’s also this article by William Kidder (a researcher at the Equal Justice Society in San Francisco) on the impact that diversity initiatives are having on what the author dubs APAs.
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And there’s this article by Stuart Taylor of the National Journal. Taylor claims that the current crop of racially based hiring practices of law firms, “are at best a mixed blessing — and are often a curse — for their recipients.”