Hogan, Lovells is among the highest of A-list law firms. It represents clients world wide with hundreds of lawyers. Its lawyers assuredly have the highest skills of advocacy with confidence and sel-assurance. Skillful lawyers are not easily traumatized by speech, nor would they be easily offended. This is why I think the story below reported by John Turley is so surprising and strange.
Apparently at a meeting of the female members of HL, one attorney expressed agreement with the SCOTUS Dobbs (abortion) decision. long story short, some of the female attorneys were traumatized by that comment and as a result the attorney who expressed agreement was shown the door ending a long career.
I will never understand how anybody can be so offended by speech. I recognize the argument in terms of personal insults and the like, but this is about a legal opinion which carries weighty arguments on both sides. Good attorneys ought to take these issues in stride and move on.
Ya have to wonder how the female attorneys who became offended ever survived law school, or how they even survive contentious and heated client issues.
Yet, I shouldn’t be surprised. This is simply nothing more than an ignore button but in a different context. A while back I posed the question about whether this super-sensitivity is a result of what I called toxic femininity. Emotions and feelings are becoming too important throughout life and business.
Apparently at a meeting of the female members of HL, one attorney expressed agreement with the SCOTUS Dobbs (abortion) decision. long story short, some of the female attorneys were traumatized by that comment and as a result the attorney who expressed agreement was shown the door ending a long career.
I will never understand how anybody can be so offended by speech. I recognize the argument in terms of personal insults and the like, but this is about a legal opinion which carries weighty arguments on both sides. Good attorneys ought to take these issues in stride and move on.
Ya have to wonder how the female attorneys who became offended ever survived law school, or how they even survive contentious and heated client issues.
Yet, I shouldn’t be surprised. This is simply nothing more than an ignore button but in a different context. A while back I posed the question about whether this super-sensitivity is a result of what I called toxic femininity. Emotions and feelings are becoming too important throughout life and business.
“Welcome Consequences”: Hogan Lovells Fires Partner for Voicing Her Views on the Dobbs Decision
In a column in the Wall Street Journal, Robin Keller, a partner at Hogan Lovells, wrote about being fired from the firm after a distinguished career of 44 years. Keller was not fired for intermingl…
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