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When can a law firm discriminate among own employees to meet a client's request?
- turtleyacht 3y ago[pdf]
- bell-cot 3y ago(From 2007, if I'm reading the headers correctly.) One wonders just how dim some lawyers might be, for scholarship.law.upenn.edu to feel that it needs to fully explain that "Makeus Lotsof Monnie, LLP" is not the name of a real law firm. With a full section heading. On the second page. Also interesting: Pfizer is cited on the 3rd/4th page as putting strong pressure on law firms to recruit/retain/promote woman & minority lawyers. Last that I recall hearing, Pfizer and several other large pharma firms were fanatically pro-discrimination in their customer-facing sales rep positions - either you were an extremely attractive younger woman, or you did not get the job. Given the number of legal cases, lawyers, etc. mentioned in the paper - I have to wonder why large companies would be explicit about this sort of via-law-firm discrimination. Vs. learning who the law firm's "more diverse" attorneys were (photos on the firms "Our Attorneys" web page?), then "by chance" interacting with a few of those, then insisting that one of those handle your business - giving whatever flimsy excuse seemed convenient. "We bonded over both having 5th-grade teachers with hard-to-pronounce last names" doesn't raise any legal or ethical issues. And you don't enter into a relationship with an attorney or law firm because you want more legal or ethical issues.