[Pearls Before Swine]

Note to self: be very circumspect in hiring minority lawyers who graduated from IU Bloomington.

[Marauder]

There are other red flags: if he or she advertises on TV they should be carefully watched, for example personal injury lawyers. It's not hard to discern their target market.
Best approach is to retain one that has been certified in whatever service you need, for example "Family Practice." The "bar" has been lowered too far for all of them.
Before some of you lawyer freepers light your blowtorches, I realize that there are many above board and ethical attorneys out there. But you have to admit there are some slimy shysters as well. Perfect example is the scum-sucking pig that defended Westerfield, the murderer of Danielle Van Damm in California.

[B-bone]

As a result, black applicants whose low grades, LSAT scores and extracurricular record would otherwise win admission only to Howard Law School in Washington, D.C., regularly win admission from us.

He doesn't speak highly of Howard students either.

[Henrietta]

Ping

[WL-law]

Note to self: be very circumspect in hiring minority lawyers who graduated from IU Bloomington.

Well, with low graduation/high dropout-flunkout rates, followed by low bar-passing percentages, the system does have some tools to protect itself and consumers.

But the non-minority applicant that was DENIED admission remains denied -- they get little solace from the protections I mentioned.

[Atlas Sneezed]

"Note to self: be very circumspect in hiring minority lawyers who graduated from IU Bloomington."

The sad truth is that rational people can apply this to any professional (e.g. Doctor, Lawyer, Engineer) who is assumed to have benefited from race preferences in education and hiring. Without AA, we might have fewer dark-skinned professionals, but at least we would know that they met the same qualifications as everyone else.

If one considers preferring to avoid a black doctor or lawyer "racist," then we may conclude that AA TEACHES racism.

[jackbill]

Note to self: be very circumspect in hiring minority lawyers who graduated from IU Bloomington.

And from any other "flagship" law school. And doctors as well.

Sorry, but I want to be sure.