In a series of posts throughout the month of April, NLPC documented how top law firms dominated by Democrat activist attorneys reaped business from major corporations who wanted to make insinuations, or outright accusations, of racism to just go away.
Here are the posts we published on NLPC this month:
- “How the Left’s Go-To Law Firm Built a Corporate Racial Justice Racket” (April 6)
- “Obama’s Two Attorneys General Cashed In; US Corporations Paid the Bill” (April 13)
- “We’ve Seen It Before: The Protection Racket That Corporate America Built” (April 20)
Reporter Fred Lucas of The Daily Signal noticed the series and put together a write-up summarizing NLPC’s findings — an excerpt:
Two former attorneys general under the Obama administration—Eric Holder (pictured above with Al Sharpton) and Loretta Lynch—have led their respective firms’ efforts on the racial equity audits. Holder is a partner with the firm Covington & Burling. Lynch is the chairwoman of civil rights and racial equity audits at the firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison.
The National Legal and Policy Center noted the boon for the major law firms as the White House released a report examining the economic impact of DEI policies.
“Behind the scenes, DEI is not really dead. It’s more under the radar now, but many corporate executives are true believers,” Paul Chesser, director of the Corporate Integrity Project at the National Legal and Policy Center, told The Daily Signal. “We’ve gone from grassroots rabble-rousers like Al Sharpton shaking down companies to white-shoe law firms run by former attorneys general.”
Also:
These audits have died down, but the divisions of the law firms are still running, so the industry could boom again when political winds change, Chesser said.
Corporations frequently presented these audits as independent, objective reviews, but the National Legal and Policy Center contends the big fees effectively bought access to “homogeneous Democratic law firms.”
Read the full article at The Daily Signal.
