After reviewing the article from the NPR community website it was very interesting to understand why the statistics are so low of their being minority women that work or have partial ownership of these law firms that we usually frequent on a regular. The impression that I have always had was that lawyers were usually law abiding citizens, you never think that they would be the ones that are discriminative against others, judge others by their skin color or their nationality that is other than from what we have in the united states. It seems that in our law firms, which we all know usually consist of white males are being so judgmental, harmful, and just plain disrespectful. However, they are doing this very thing to women who are of different nationality and involved with our justice system. Either way it’s something that is very sad to see and must stop. In the article that was presented to us there was a story of a women lawyer who was Korean, one of her male colleges called her into his office as he was dealing with a Korean client the lawyer looked at her and started talking gibberish which in turn really was trying to be him speaking Chinese or Korean. After he confronted him in front of the client by introducing herself to the client in English she went back to her office. While at her desk, on their internal messaging system, something close to an instant message on her computer popped up with a whole bunch of gibberish of numbers and letters. This was supposed to be the lawyer trying to talk Chinese again to her. This in my opinion is just plain disrespectful. However, it goes along with the book. Holly English touches on the same sort of scenarios regarding the constraints those women lawyers deal with in the practice. Here these lawyers are supposed to be their colleges and it’s almost like they are their enemies.
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