I feel like there’s a pushback against hiring attorneys of color in big law & I’m exhausted! I just completed a 6 month recruitment process full of 2 virtual interviews, 2 in person interviews, 5 recommendations, etc & made it to the conflict check process only to be told two weeks later that the firm management didn’t approve my hire because I was not a “flawless applicant” they referenced inconsistent em dash punctuation on my resume i submitted 6 months ago…

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Wow… smh …. sorry to hear this, but also sounds like you dodged a bullet

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Wow. I am so sorry.

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Which Big Law firm was this?

One of the capitulators, I presume?

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