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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

That wasn't my point

My post was quite long, now it is just a joke about lawyers and noxious emissions.

We struggled for years to recruit black clerks, and were frustrated. But understand we were very driven to get diverse. It strengthens the firm, besides being the right thing.

Then we came up with an explanation of what the challenge was and we addressed it and had great success. A client's DEI person sent out a detailed survey and when em heard what we had done had a long talk with me to compliment our approach. Em asked is em could share our approach with other affiliated firms (we said yes). Then the head of my little practice area called me to talk about DEI efforts. The guy had not heard of the survey sitting on the DEI person's desk, not 50 yards away from his. Rather than talking to that person, instead he said he looked at our webpage and assumed no black people from that. We didn't put law clerks' pictures up until graduation. Looking at webpages and not asking for explanations is a very common compliant among people I know who are actually making the efforts.

Then the guy told me about an association that tries to match black law students with summer jobs at firms. I explained we were a small firm and if we brought a summer in we were be harming the 2 year round black law students we already had. He still urged me to check it out. I didn't.

But that type of experience from someone who is just blindly mouthing slogans without seeing subtle facts does cause eye rolling even among those of us who are actually making strides and progress.

Seriously, no one read it before I deleted it?

I read it. I was referring to your subsequent post about deleting it.