Year: 2023

Today’s oral arguments in the affirmative action challenges against UNC and Harvard packed in a lot over the course of five hours. Unfortunately, very little of that content involved any legal or factual analysis. But what it lacked in judicial content, it more than made up in robed policy making and casual racism.

From distorting Justice O’Connor’s dicta that she hoped for a country that wouldn’t need affirmative action by 2028 into a sunset clause to musing that affluent Black people don’t face discrimination, the Court delivered the biggest hits in the anti-diversity catalog one after another without a miss.

It was truly the Midnights of white grievance.

The moment when I completed my personal BINGO card arrived when “viewpoint diversity” entered the conversation. At one juncture, Consovoy McCarthy partner Cam Norris pointed out that “Harvard is not diverse at all,” because only 9 percent of incoming students identify as

When was the last time you skipped lunch to line dance to Shania Twain’s “Man, I Feel Like a Woman”? Did I mention it was with a group of 50 lawyers at a CLE in Nashville? For me, it was two weeks ago! Very few things are as satisfying as getting the grapevine right to three heel toes to a quarter turn down pat.

Attending the 2022 Clio Cloud Conference reminded me of the importance of friendships as an entrepreneurial lawyer. I connected with lawyer friends from all over the world (yes, even some from the U.K. and Down Under!) I get so excited whenever I have the opportunity to meet with attorneys I’ve met in various phases of my career. These lawyers are awe-inspiring tech founders, law firm owners, professors, and inventors. Fun fact: I met most of the lawyers through social media!

I felt isolated and unsure when