[tuatoru]

The reason for DEI does not matter. The practical outcome is perhaps perverse.

A potential client will see a "diverse" lawyer and think "this person was hired because of DEI rather than competence."

Prudent clients will insist on white male lawyers because they must be competent to have jobs in a DEI environment. So actually competent lawyers from minorities suffer because of DEI policies and laws.

[jimz]

The ordinary client does not know how to properly evaluate the competency of an attorney anyway, DEI or not DEI. And no, the jingle is not correlated to performance either in motion or trial practice. Hell, Cellino and Barnes literally had a new Barnes and kept the jingle and nobody even seemed to notice.