This press release is testimony to Wal-Mart’s Money Magic. The National Association of Women Lawyers presented the firm — notorious for its poor treatment of its female employees — with the association’s President’s Award at its annual awards luncheon at the Waldorf-Astoria. The award was, “in recognition of the legal department’s diversity initiatives. Wal-Mart’s legal department employs 42 attorneys of color (30.4% of the department) and 56 women (40.4% of the department), and promotes women and minorities to management positions within the company. Wal-Mart also requires that its outside counsel appoint women attorneys and attorneys of color as relationship partners on Wal-Mart matters.”

Testimony that money buys friends (or that female lawyers are only too happy to fight against working-class women if the money’s right).

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Last month, the news was about another award Wal-Mart bought . . . I mean ‘earned.’ In announcing the award, Black Enterprise Magazine said Wal-Mart was “among the 10 best companies in marketing diversity.”

Last month, Atlanta Daily World ran this story about Wal-Mart donating $200,000 to the NAACP.

Given how things work in the world of diversity awards, it’s probably just a coincidence.

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