If you had to guess, how many other Lawyers of color are there at the firm you work at? I work at a firm with around 22 other attorneys and there are only two of us who are POC

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650 attorneys. Maybe 8 Black. 6-7 Asian/South Asian. 1 Latin/Hispanic. 0 Indigenous. All come from generational wealth or double doctor/lawyer households. The numbers on the website look different because there are 3-4 people who self identify as POC bc they have a great grandparent who is a POC. But all of these people present as white physically and culturally. It’s… tiring.

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@Corporate Counsel 1: What do you mean, “you all?” 😂

Just joking because you’re obviously a joke of a person coming to an attorneys of color group to bemoan that people talk about being attorneys of color 😒

Work at a small firm, 3 partners, 2 associates, about 3 of counsel who work in specialized areas for us. But we all Black baby 💁🏽‍♀️

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Love to see it 🙏🏾

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I’m in government, in an office of about 50 and I’m the only one.

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Out of 50 lawyers in my company, there are 8 in the US and 3 are Hispanic (2 women), the rest are white men.

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46 lawyers in my old office. Only one black lawyer.

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Small ~25 attorney law firm, I’m the only attorney of color.

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Are we counting white Hispanic?

Just checking since that seems to be a hot take in some spaces…

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There are three of us. We are all different ethnicities/races and are the closest to one another. I’m sure you can guess why we might be.

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