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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, yes I know it's about diversity.  But it still still sounds wrong to me for clients to demand quotas, when employers aren't supposed to use them.  What I was thinking of were the days when men would request a male doctor (or whites would  request a white doctor) because they assumed a male or white doctor would be more competent.  If a man came into the ER today with a broken arm and insisted on seeing a male doctor, or a white doctor,  for treatment, would the hospital honor the request?[/quote]

Yes, patients can and do refuse to be seen by female doctors or people of color.  There was just an article about this in the Washington Post.  
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/08/21/asian-american-doctor-white-nationalist-patients-refused-my-care-over-race/?utm_term=.ca95a07d306f

In your law firm example, though, I don't see even that issue, because I'm not refusing to let an individual white man work on my legal matter.  I'm just choosing to hire firms that value the same things my company (and by extension, my shareholders) value.  As a private individual I choose to spend my money at women-owned and minority-owned businesses, invest in "socially conscious" funds, etc. -- it's a consumer choice, and companies get to make that same choice.  Unless you're arguing that there is a shortage of highly qualified female and POC lawyers -- and you're not arguing that, are you? -- there's no issue here.

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