Elite Law Firms in Trouble With Civil Rights Law Again

Giancarlo Canaparo writes:

The complaint gathers quotations from Sponsors for Educational Opportunity’s public statements and from its employees, which paint a sordid picture of race discrimination.

Its website once described the program as “the nation’s only summer internship program for pre-law students of color.” One of its directors posted on social media that the program is “tailored for underrepresented minorities.” And someone identifying as a recruiter for Sponsors for Educational Opportunity stated the program was limited mostly to “black, Hispanic, and Native American students,” although “we do take other minority groups and mixed races into consideration.”

Sponsors for Educational Opportunity apparently wasn’t the only organization to publicly tout its racial focus. The complaint alleges that some of the firms that it partners with explicitly described the program in their own materials as targeting “students of color.”

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The failure of law firms to screen Sponsors for Educational Opportunity applicants has led to some embarrassment for the firms, the complaint alleges. For example, one of these applicants was hired at a corporate law firm even though she “runs an online store where she sells stickers endorsing the murder of corporate executives.” Another applicant reposted an X.com post saying, “If you can f— a white girl you can f— a dog” (redactions added).

The complaint attaches screenshots as exhibits.

Read more at the Daily Signal.