It’s rote work, not bet-the-company litigation. Big companies have a lot of small employment matters, where the plaintiffs are often minority, hourly workers. By using minority lawyers, companies can show the board that they have diverse outside counsel and get credit. It’s a way to throw a bone.
— a former lawyer who’s African-American, in comments given to Vivia Chen of The Careerist on how it’s easier to promote black labor and employment lawyers to nonequity partner because it “doesn’t really upset the existing order.”
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Staci Zaretsky is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she’s worked since 2011. She’d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Twitter or connect with her on LinkedIn.