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Get woke, go broke.
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) recently announced he’ll forgo future corporate donations.
NRSC Chair Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) similarly warned “it will be a day of reckoning” against woke corporations if Republicans retake both chambers of Congress next year.
Is a Great Woke Revolt on the horizon? A movement is definitely taking shape. Here are three examples.
Basecamp CEO Puts Foot Down on Politics
Last week, Basecamp CEO Jason Reid took a bold stand banning political discourse at his company. His letter “Changes at Basecamp” reads like this:
Coca-Cola s General Counsel has abruptly left his role with rumours swirling that board members baulked at his radical diversity initiatives.
Bradley Gayton left Coke just eight months after joining the beverage giant, and mere weeks after he unveiled radical plans to improve the diversity of firms working for the company.
Gayton set out aggressive targets to increase the diversity of Coke s external legal advisors which required at least 30% of all hours billed on new Coke matters to be recorded by diverse lawyers (including female, LGBT and disabled staff), with half of those hours to be billed by black lawyers.
The stance was designed to motivate panel firms to improve diversity in their workplace, or alternatively to declare that all their associates were non-binary and swamp the sole black paralegal with Coke jobs.
Lessons revealed from
Albright trials
On Thursday, April 29, Managing IP revealed the top lessons learned
by litigators while watching Judge Alan Albright’s first four patent trials at
the US District Court for the Western District of Texas.
Albright, who took up his position at the court in 2018, has fast become the busiest judge for
patent cases in the US. Last year, 855 cases were filed in his court,
124 more than in the Delaware district court, the next busiest venue.
One of the five key lessons that lawyers have taken away is
that they need to give careful thought to how they prepare (and select)
Litigation and public policy boutique Boyden Gray & Associates PLLC on Wednesday published a letter to Coca-Cola's new general counsel, on behalf of the Project on Fair Representation, warning that the beverage giant's outside counsel "racial quota requirements" enacted earlier this year under its former top lawyer are "unlawful."
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ARLINGTON, Va., April 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Today, the Project on Fair Representation sent a letter to Monica Howard Douglas, Coca-Cola s new General Counsel, urging the company to rescind the recently announced policy that requires all outside law firms hired by the company to meet racial quotas in staffing Coca-Cola matters.
The law firm of Boyden Gray & Associates, a Washington D.C.-based litigation and public policy boutique, authored the letter. The letter is attached.
The current Coca-Cola company policy states that if a law firm fails to comply with meeting the quotas, it faces a non-refundable 30% reduction in fees and may be shut out entirely.