What I Didn’t Learn
in Law School: Adventures with black clients
by Donald Williamson
I grew up in a suburb
of a large northern city, and had no real contact with blacks until I became a
lawyer. After I got my law degree I naïvely looked forward to a rewarding legal
career. Little did I realize that 25 years later I would be a self-employed
attorney doing domestic and civil litigation for a clientele that is
overwhelmingly black.
I didn’t plan it that way. I just wanted to do a lot of work in the
courtroom, and the best offer I got out of law school was with a small firm
that specialized in bankruptcy. Most of its clients were black. Several years
later, I set up an independent practice and many of my former clients came to
me for domestic work.
Most people do not realize this, but outside the world of corporate or
securities law, in any big city the legal profession is to a large degree
fueled by the pathologies of blacks and other Third-World people. Of course,
whites hire lawyers, but in any city, especially one with a good-sized black
population, most of the people who need lawyers are black. In this respect,
lawyers are like police officers or social workers — they rarely deal with
ordinary white people….To Read More….
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