Sidley has promoted 38 people to partner and 27 to counsel and not one individual is black. That is disgraceful. I fully expect the small number of black big law attorneys to go the way of the dodo bird under Trump. My firm has lost 4 black associates in the last month and a half and I don't even think we had 20 of us nationwide.

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at least one of them is black. i know him. doesn't change the overall sentiment tho.

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But are you really surprised? I’m not.

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Why are you surprised? For the most part, if you don’t have a guardian angel at this firm you will be pushed out, which makes it super hard to beat the odds of becoming a partner. I am too lazy to check, but I would be curious to know how many POC that became partners are homegrown vs transplant (aka they brought them here as senior associate then made them partner within a couple of years).

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But isn't that every firm where you get pushed out? I don't understand how there isn't at least a handful of black people making partner with how large that class is.

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I mean, what’s new in BL? Same thing with king & spalding. Elevated their largest partner class and not one elected partner is Black. Same ole story. 🙄

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