“Sixty major New York law firms have agreed to create a database containing the race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation of each of their lawyers. As I understand it, the firms have agreed to supplement their usual billing statements for corporate clients with an extra report of the hours worked broken down by race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation of the lawyers assigned to the client.
Apparently, the new practice is client-driven. A number of corporate clients want to decide what firms to hire and fire based on the race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation of the lawyers working on their cases, and the firms have now agreed to provide that information. As one person quoted in the story explains, a firm that assigns a team of lawyers with a gender/race/orientation mix that the client does not approve of will now be history.”
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I wonder if this is actually legal…
My so called life* 
May 17, 2005 at 1:16 pm
As long as they don’t tell the client who is the black woman in the group they’re fine, I suppose 😉
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May 17, 2005 at 5:34 pm
it has practical purposes, i think
pretending racial prejudices do not exist amongst juries is unrealistic, and sometimes itd be wise to avoid any influence from racism in legal issues by subscribing to it yourself
so I’m on trial for killing a skinhead,
there is a good ‘ole boy on the jury
i sure as hell do not want a black lawyer.
That said, this sounds more than a little out of line.
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