Not only is my own **fantastic** employer of nine years (anniversary just last week - they've stuck with me FIERCELY through the most difficult time in my life, losing my soulmate of 20+ years to COVID and my beloved mama to a brain tumor just 11 months later) on this list, but after 28 years in my field, firms that could be considered successors-in-interest to my first two firms are also being targeted.
I'm a proud member of the PRIDE group at my current firm and I've participated in basically EVERY DEI initiative we've sponsored in the past decade. In fact, the firm's ranking as one of the best law firms for women, a 100% score on Human Rights Watch's corporate diversity scorecard for supporting the LGBTQ+ community and the opportunity to earn billable credit for pro bono work (for which I earned a certificate from Lawyers For Good Government in 2023 for my volunteerism in the areas of asylum/family separation, reproductive rights and cannabis clemency) were one of the chief motivators for me in joining my firm.
I remember being in TEARS when, not even a year after I joined the firm, during the first WEEK of Corpulent Caligula's first term, I learned that nearly thirty lawyers from my firm were on the ground at Logan Airport assisting victims of the attempted "Muslim ban," sitting cross-legged on the cold concrete floor with their laptops alongside those families upon whom chaos and stress was being rained down for no valid reason.
My firm's very first case, over 100 years ago, was on behalf of a Titanic survivor AGAINST the White Star Line. After almost 20 years of increasing disillusionment finding out the firms that employed me repped clients like the manufacturers of asbestos, breast implants or weapons of war, I recall crying out loud to my dear mama (now gone nearly four years), "I'm finally working for the white hats!"
I want you to know that not all lawyers are greedy a$$holes. I've benefited greatly over the decades from their generosity, from the manager at my first firm who personally wrote a check to help her struggling records clerk buy a reliable car to the one who reimbursed me out of his own pocket some of the money I had to spend earlier this year to evacuate my family and cats from the L.A. fires (and thank the gods that was all we lost and we had a home to which we could return, unlike SO many of my neighbors). Many of them got into this fight for all the right reasons. In some ways, I can only hope that they are the last bastion of defense against this creeping evil that seeks to destroy us all. Please spare a thought for them in the upcoming battles they're waging or about to wage.
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