A Black woman suing @troutmanpepper for racial discrimination included an email from a white male partner: "This is very basic, elementary communication. This has nothing to do with training, or understanding of multifamily transactional law, this is daily required functioning."
The email was included in a 38-page federal complaint filed today by @WigdorLaw, which has a lot of high-profile lawsuits, including against Diddy. Troutman Pepper (no, it's not a dinner entrée) says the woman was fired "for legitimate, non-discriminatory reasons..."
@meghanncuniff @troutmanpepper If you Google the dude who sent this email, you’ll see he looks like a dude who would send this email.
@meghanncuniff @troutmanpepper I have no idea or information or opinion whatsoever about the merits of the underlying case, but on its face I don't see a thing wrong with the email. It sounds about like I would expect from any senior partner frustrated with the performance of an associate, regardless of race.
@meghanncuniff @troutmanpepper I misspelled the client’s name in a killer brief I wrote for my very first assignment. I got clobbered as hard as this or harder. For 6 months my name was Typo King. No opinion on the merits, & I would never send this email now that I’m an old but I received them - brutally.
@meghanncuniff @AttorneyCrump @troutmanpepper Sounds like there are two problems. The partner is probably very nasty, and she is probably unclear in her communications. If you can’t take feedback, you’re a crap attorney.
@meghanncuniff @troutmanpepper Actually baffled by all the replies saying “I don’t get how this email helps her.” How does a thread full of legal professionals not stop to read the actual complaint before leaping to mean-spirited conclusions about its relevance or the plaintiff's performance? Do better, guys.
@meghanncuniff @troutmanpepper I hope she wins but I’m not sure how this email helps her at all…
@meghanncuniff @troutmanpepper Yeah, this email doesn’t help her at all because the partner was 100% correct here.
@meghanncuniff @troutmanpepper On a scale of 1 to the worst thing that happened to me as a young associate- this is somewhere around a 3.