A new report reveals that former Obama Attorney General Eric Holder’s law firm has been accused of racism by a former associate at the firm.
The law firm Covington & Burlington which conducts high priced diversity audits is being accused of the exact thing it investigated at corporations.
The Washington Free Beacon reports:
Paul Bryant, a West Point graduate, Columbia Law School alumnus, and self-described “Black, Neurodivergent former 5th year” Covington associate, detailed the claims in a series of colorful LinkedIn posts. He alleges that a Covington partner, Kyle Rabe, “called me a ‘n—r’ after I defended myself and my reputation in response to him trying to pressure me to quit.”
Rabe did so, Bryant says, at the urging of “Covington’s management” after Bryant told another partner that he “would not write SEC disclosures in support of anti-minority and anti-women based initiatives.” Bryant says he “almost went away silently” after Covington offered to give him “resume writing services” as part of a settlement.
“I considered this option,” Bryant writes, “but when Covington & Burling LLP began to unwarrantedly defame me to young impressionable Black attorneys, I knew I had to speak up.”
The firm has honored Bryant in the past: Four months ago, Covington posted its own message to LinkedIn congratulating him “for being named to the National Black Lawyers Top 40 under 40.”
It has not been revealed which anti-women and minority initiatives Bryant took issue with but DEI at the firm has been spearheaded by Holder’s practice.
Holder did not miss on Bryant’s ire, in a LinkedIn post asking where Eric Holder has been Bryant responded with “… salient question.”
Apart from his work at the firm, Holder is also the chairman of the National Democratic Redistricting committee.
