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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a big law client ability trumps diversity. We too have to deal with diversity challenges but when you are paying absurd hourly rates you expect the best. [/quote]

You can have the best and still have diversity.  Surely you aren't saying that having the best means that you have an all white team?[/quote]

It means that it doesn't matter what color it is as long as it's the cream of the crop. Not sure what is so difficult to understand about that. [/quote]

Are you a lawyer?  It doesn't sound like it.  Law is a retrograde profession that put up barriers to non-white males entering the ranks for a LONG time.  Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was at the top of her law class at Columbia but then struggled to get hired at a firm.  Clients know that, left to its own devices, the legal profession isn't exactly racing to reform itself.  So they ask for the BEST and they know that there's no reason (besides the holdover legacy of exclusionary policies in the law and legal education) should not include women and minorities.  The partnership at law firms is OVERWHELMINGLY white men so don't worry your little head off about white guys suffering from a few others that don't look like them on the team.[/quote]

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