Comments on: “The first portion of the rule would impose a duty on all attorneys to promote diversity and inclusion.” https://www.overlawyered.com/2020/01/the-first-portion-of-the-rule-would-impose-a-duty-on-all-attorneys-to-promote-diversity-and-inclusion/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Mon, 09 Mar 2020 21:59:35 +0000 hourly 1 By: mike https://www.overlawyered.com/2020/01/the-first-portion-of-the-rule-would-impose-a-duty-on-all-attorneys-to-promote-diversity-and-inclusion/comment-page-1/#comment-357663 Wed, 29 Jan 2020 14:42:21 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=73894#comment-357663 Check out the newest issue of the New York State Br Association Journal, in which the cover story is about the most crucial challenge facing the legal profession in New York: apparently, white supremacists.

Unfortunately, I have already paid my dues for 2020.

]]> By: aileronguy https://www.overlawyered.com/2020/01/the-first-portion-of-the-rule-would-impose-a-duty-on-all-attorneys-to-promote-diversity-and-inclusion/comment-page-1/#comment-357662 Wed, 29 Jan 2020 13:50:55 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=73894#comment-357662 Liberal ideologies have a nasty way of coming back and biting one, don’t they. “Fall in line or die” turns to “But not me!”

]]> By: Walter Olson https://www.overlawyered.com/2020/01/the-first-portion-of-the-rule-would-impose-a-duty-on-all-attorneys-to-promote-diversity-and-inclusion/comment-page-1/#comment-357660 Wed, 29 Jan 2020 13:07:58 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=73894#comment-357660 In reply to Douglas2.

We covered the Ontario happenings in several posts:

https://www.overlawyered.com/?s=ontario+law+society

If I am reading the ABA Journal article correctly, its prescriptions go even farther in some respects than the ones attempted in Ontario.

]]> By: Douglas2 https://www.overlawyered.com/2020/01/the-first-portion-of-the-rule-would-impose-a-duty-on-all-attorneys-to-promote-diversity-and-inclusion/comment-page-1/#comment-357656 Wed, 29 Jan 2020 02:56:49 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=73894#comment-357656 When the Ontario law society tried this recently, the response was a record number of lawyers voting in the board election for the law society, and a new board that immediately rescinded the requirement.

https://nationalpost.com/news/ontarios-law-society-ditches-controversial-statement-on-diversity-but-loses-none-of-its-acrimony

]]> By: captnhal https://www.overlawyered.com/2020/01/the-first-portion-of-the-rule-would-impose-a-duty-on-all-attorneys-to-promote-diversity-and-inclusion/comment-page-1/#comment-357644 Tue, 28 Jan 2020 17:54:16 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=73894#comment-357644 Paraphrasing a famous speech: “I have a dream that we will one day live in a nation where we will not be judged by the color of our skin but by the content of our character.”

]]> By: cc https://www.overlawyered.com/2020/01/the-first-portion-of-the-rule-would-impose-a-duty-on-all-attorneys-to-promote-diversity-and-inclusion/comment-page-1/#comment-357643 Tue, 28 Jan 2020 16:41:30 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=73894#comment-357643 There is a world of difference between saying lawyers have an obligation not to steal from clients and to maintain confidentiality and saying they must promote a societal goal favored by the Left. This is especially so when the Left means some very specific things about inclusion such as trans people must be allowed into high school showers of the opposite sex, it is ok to discriminate against asians in college admissions, and it is dandy to put bakers out of business for not baking a rainbow cake. They can’t seem to imagine that anyone could disagree with these views. Even less can they imagine that affirmative action can be hurting minorities by getting them into schools where they can’t do the work so they drop out. So many adverse reasons not to have this. These people really are thought police.

]]> By: SPO https://www.overlawyered.com/2020/01/the-first-portion-of-the-rule-would-impose-a-duty-on-all-attorneys-to-promote-diversity-and-inclusion/comment-page-1/#comment-357641 Tue, 28 Jan 2020 14:52:26 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=73894#comment-357641 Enough is enough. At some point, the practice of law is going to have to be taken out of the control of state supreme courts and their state bar acolytes. It’s bad enough that they have silly CLE requirements that are the result of rent-seeking behavior and an almost thuggish response to any hint of lawyer criticism of the judiciary. Now, they are going to tell us that we have to support race preferences? Who are these people?

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