Today’s depressing internet news for black people is that they’re not going to make partner at a large law firm in a major city. Well, black people probably already know that, but a new study making the rounds today emphasizes that point for those who haven’t been paying attention.
African-Americans make up only 1.9% of the partners at the nation’s top 100 law firms, according to American Lawyer. That number has barely changed in five years. If you are an African-American woman, you should probably not even bother. Only one of every 170 top law firm partners is a black female.
In general, the legal profession is a bad place for black people. Only 4.2% of American attorneys are black, compared with 7.1% of doctors and 8.5% of financial managers. So if you are a rich person, you are basically more likely to have a black person fix your heart so you can live long enough to spend all the money he’s made for you then you are to have him write your will.
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Why is this? We can’t know for sure, but in law, advancing in your career has more to do with what white people think of you than anything else…