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Winston & Strawn The Next Target Of Blum And His Diversity Haters

Hoping That Third Time's The Failure.

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Diversity (1)The members of the Anti-Equity Troupe are back with their spite suits. This time, they have their sights on Winston & Strawn. Perkins Coie and Morrison Foerster modified the wording of their fellowships after Blum + Co. prodded at their programs, but Winston & Strawn may have a little more moxie. From Bloomberg Law:

Blum’s American Alliance for Equal Rights alleges Winston & Strawn’s program “discriminates against certain applicants because of their race.”…“It is our hope that Winston & Strawn will be compelled by the courts to follow the law,” Blum said in a statement.

Thankfully, Winston & Strawn’s response has a bit of bite to it:

“Your implication that the terms ‘disadvantaged’ and ‘historically underrepresented’ necessarily refer to race is baseless,” Winston partner Cardelle Spangler said. “Winston & Strawn does not make employment decisions on the basis of race or ethnicity.”

Could this be the disparate impact affirmative action lawsuit that we’ve all been waiting for? We all know that Black people are not the only Americans that are poor. But, due to the long running American tradition of screwing over Black pockets with policy choices, many Black families are fighting poverty. Does that necessarily make low income a proxy for Black? No, but groups like Wisconsin Institute For Law And Liberty used that argument to say that Pell Grant relief was too Black to be constitutional and you can best believe that mirroring arguments will be made against programs that take historical underrepresentation into account.

Winston & Strawn Is Third Firm Hit With Blum Group’s DEI Suit [Bloomberg Law]

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Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord™ in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s.  He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who cannot swim, a published author on critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at [email protected] and by tweet at @WritesForRent.

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