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Harrison Barnes crushes minorities attempting to succeed in biglaw
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Date: January 17th, 2017 3:54 PM Author: concupiscible sienna roommate http://www.bcgsearch.com/article/900045952/The-Unexamined-Crisis-of-Race-Social-Class-and-the-American-Law-Firm/#
When I am working with minority attorneys as a legal recruiter, I often see the results of this racial preference playing itself out. African Americans often get jobs in law firms without the grades that would normally be expected of them in order to get into large law firms. Moreover, there are some very strange things I see that are upsetting to me.
"You got 'C's' in legal writing and barely made it through law school and now you are a litigator at one of the top litigation law firms in the country?"
"Yes, I am not a great writer. I need to work on that."
What happens to these attorneys is that they start doing work and make so many errors that the partners in the law firms stop giving them assignments. They stop giving them work because the associates' skills are not up to par and they do not want to train them. When they don't receive training and integration, the attorneys do not advance and get discouraged.
As a legal recruiter, I am faced with seeing an attorney who graduated from a top American law school, who is working at a top law firm and looks on the surface to be marketable but does not have the understanding of what it takes to be good at his or her job. The attorney could be from Harvard or some other top law school, but she cannot do the work and has been advanced up the system too far and too fast. The firm has advanced her without the attorney first demonstrating she understands the value of hard work.
I have also seen this with American Indians and people of other ethnic groups. One of my first placements was of an American Indian attorney who went to Harvard Law School and then got a position at a major American law firm. She was ill-equipped to do the work and was getting horrible reviews. Within months she had turned into a crystal meth addict and had all sorts of problems. She did not have the ability to do the work at such a high level and there was little reason she should have been advanced that far. She spent years cleaning herself up and is now working as a criminal defense attorney on an Indian reservation.
I know of a federal judge who hired an African American woman out of Harvard Law School. The quality of her work was so poor that, to avoid being called a racist (and being ridiculed by other judges), he was relegated to doing all her writing himself and getting a special allowance to hire an "emergency clerk" to finish opinions. |
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Date: January 17th, 2017 4:18 PM Author: sooty dopamine TBF, does law school prepare students in anyway whatsoever for firm life or firm work? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3494130&forum_id=2#32393820) |
Date: January 17th, 2017 4:03 PM Author: Sadistic brindle striped hyena gaping Within months she had turned into a crystal meth addict and had all sorts of problems. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3494130&forum_id=2#32393702) |
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Date: January 17th, 2017 4:09 PM Author: Slate Hilarious Menage Jumped out st me as well.
Take note, it's only a short fall from HLS to crystal meth addiction. |
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Date: January 17th, 2017 4:16 PM Author: vermilion splenetic patrolman (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3494130&forum_id=2#32393813) |
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Date: January 17th, 2017 4:17 PM Author: Slate Hilarious Menage Lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3494130&forum_id=2#32393818) |
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Date: January 17th, 2017 4:38 PM Author: curious space mods (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3494130&forum_id=2#32394002) |
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Date: January 17th, 2017 4:51 PM Author: French twinkling house clown LOL at this coming from a profession where lots of people use a fucking amphetamine derivative to churn out work. OH DONT TOUCH THAT CRYSTAL METH (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3494130&forum_id=2#32394086) |
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Date: January 17th, 2017 4:05 PM Author: 180 up-to-no-good double fault Well, that's what $94 million over 4 years will do. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3494130&forum_id=2#32393714) |
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Date: January 17th, 2017 4:05 PM Author: fragrant water buffalo son of senegal Jeez, he's going to get buried for this. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3494130&forum_id=2#32393717) |
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Date: January 17th, 2017 4:06 PM Author: narrow-minded chocolate crackhouse Good for him speaking the truth. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3494130&forum_id=2#32393724) |
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Date: January 17th, 2017 4:07 PM Author: Gaped titillating stead dingle berry 180
i do enjoy reading his screeds |
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Date: January 17th, 2017 4:10 PM Author: Slate Hilarious Menage "I know of a federal judge who hired an African American woman out of Harvard Law School. The quality of her work was so poor that, to avoid being called a racist (and being ridiculed by other judges), he was relegated to doing all her writing himself and getting a special allowance to hire an "emergency clerk" to finish opinions."
Federal judges - the true victims of AA policies. |
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Date: January 17th, 2017 4:12 PM Author: 180 up-to-no-good double fault Native American lawyer chick on meth? Wonder how good and sloppy her blowjobs were while high... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3494130&forum_id=2#32393767) |
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Date: January 17th, 2017 4:16 PM Author: narrow-minded chocolate crackhouse "Ultimately my experience has taught me the following:
African-American people from lower class backgrounds almost always fail in large law firms. Upper class people from any racial background almost always fail too. Middle class people fail when they stop taking work seriously or give up. Lower to working class white attorneys rarely make it into large law firms, and if they do they have generally "become" middle class and learned how to be middle class by the time they get there (I will explain more later)." |
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Date: January 17th, 2017 4:20 PM Author: Metal Affirmative Action There's a lot of legit studies out there showing how much affirmative action sets the "beneficiaries" back. It's a bullshit practice IMO. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3494130&forum_id=2#32393838) |
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Date: January 17th, 2017 4:24 PM Author: orchid range "Paradoxically—and this bears notice—two of the most successful attorneys of our generation were both out of lower and/or working class backgrounds: Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. "
lol this isn't remotely true, both came from very middle class backgrounds, though both pretended otherwise to different degrees |
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Date: January 17th, 2017 4:32 PM Author: costumed wonderful stag film JFC
"Being an attorney is different. It is a profession you grow into, develop a reputation in, become more and more skilled at, grow in and spend your life doing. YOU ARE NOT SELLING LABOR AND YOUR TIME. YOU ARE SELLING SOMETHING MORE SIGNIFICANT. YOU ARE AN ADVOCATE FOR COMPANIES AND PEOPLE WHO DEPEND ON YOU BEING PASSIONATE ABOUT WHAT YOU DO." |
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Date: January 17th, 2017 4:33 PM Author: Hyperventilating sound barrier library (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3494130&forum_id=2#32393966) |
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Date: January 17th, 2017 4:42 PM Author: narrow-minded chocolate crackhouse Harrison Barnes = Chuck McGill.
That said, makes excellent points about affirmative action policies causing unqualified individuals to get rocketed into high-paying roles they are woefully inadequate in, and then carrying a sense of entitlement about being moved into other prestigious positions without ever putting in the work or having appropriate skills. |
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Date: January 17th, 2017 4:53 PM Author: Sadistic brindle striped hyena gaping Lehman Bros is counting on you!! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3494130&forum_id=2#32394098) |
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Date: January 17th, 2017 4:56 PM Author: curious space global capitalism is so far up this guy's ass, glocap's cock is liable to burst out barnes's mouth (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3494130&forum_id=2#32394114) |
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Date: January 17th, 2017 4:32 PM Author: Hyperventilating sound barrier library I hope he continues to write about this important topic (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3494130&forum_id=2#32393960) |