POLL: Has Your Law Firm Declared Juneteenth A Paid Holiday? (2026)
Law firms of all sizes are getting on board with Juneteenth as a holiday. Which firms are recognizing this important day?
Law firms of all sizes are getting on board with Juneteenth as a holiday. Which firms are recognizing this important day?
Law firms of all sizes are getting on board with Juneteenth as a holiday. Which firms are recognizing this important day?
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Biglaw is getting on board with Juneteenth as a holiday. Which firms are recognizing this important day?
* Good Morning! School shootings are so routine that our schools will have panic buttons in them now. Like bank tellers on the job, we kind of just factor in our kids encountering guns as a business expense. [CBS News] * The Cost of Caffeine: NLRA claims Starbucks is illegally trying to stop unionizing. I heard if you order a Venti Justice with two pumps of Equity the company will leave you alone. [CBS News] * Insurance company gets dropped by Allstate and Progressive after pulling some light Juneteenth ignance. Told you it was coming. [NPR] * Marjorie Taylor Greene pulls a South Park caricature after a UK journalist asks her about gun crime. [Huff Post]
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* Biden signed an executive order that, among other things, limits the use of federal funding for conversion therapy. Woop Woop! [The Guardian] * A vocal majority: Most New Yorkers would like fewer guns on the streets. [NY Post] * By the way, SCOTUS ruled that border agents can make warrantless arrests in most major American cities. No biggie. [Fox] * You know, there's probably a joke to be made about not paying people on the federal holiday meant to commemorate the end of slavery. [AP]
On each Juneteenth, I think about how Hilary said she kept hot sauce in her bag to secure the Black vote.
Forty-six states do recognize Juneteenth as a holiday.
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Why is today, June 19, such a significant day in American history? And how is Biglaw commemorating it?
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Biglaw is getting on board with Juneteenth as a holiday. Which firms are recognizing this important day?
Let's see who hit the layup.
Aww... at least they're trying.