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The agency’s decisions to dismantle its DEI recruiting initiatives and to interact in an settlement providing professional bono providers to the Trump administration are steeped in hypocrisy, cowardice, and greed. It makes me really feel ashamed to work right here.
— A midlevel affiliate at Latham & Watkins, in feedback given in response to the American Lawyer Midlevel Associates Survey, about how their disappointment over the agency’s determination to make a deal with the Trump administration and to go together with different conservative beliefs. Extra notable and quotable responses may be discovered here.
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