From: Edelman, Scott
Sent: Monday, June 1, 2020 3:47 PM
To: #All Milbank
Subject: Message to the Milbank Community
I am confident that all of us are shocked and dismayed by the video and audio recordings related to the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, and others before him. Words cannot capture the horrors of those recordings and I will not try to do so. We know that members of the Milbank community are in pain.
Peaceful public protest against these actions is appropriate, and indeed necessary, to reinforce the view that such conduct is completely unacceptable, and that the time for change is now.
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Unfortunately, the issues we face as a nation are not surprising to us as a firm. Milbank has a long tradition of representing those who have suffered discrimination and injustice, and we continue to be actively engaged in cases seeking systemic change and redress. The firm is taking steps today to donate $100,000 to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, and the Equal Justice Initiative, collectively, to further those efforts. We will continue to seek additional opportunities to shift current paradigms. As lawyers, we can do more than protest peacefully. We can use the law to make a difference.
Scott Edelman | Milbank
Partner and Chairman
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