The law firm Lewis Brisbois revealed former lawyers' misogynistic and vile remarks in emails.
Last month, Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard and Smith, one of the nation’s largest law firms, was rocked by the announcement that two top partners were starting their own boutique practice and taking as many as 140 colleagues with them.
By Monday, the emails had been excerpted by the New York Post and the Forward, a Jewish newspaper, and the nascent firm Barber Ranen had collapsed. It was not all good news for the firm. Some saw the email release as a self-own for Lewis Brisbois, revealing a culture of bigotry thriving in some corners of the behemoth firm. Many objectionable messages were copied to co-workers, from junior associates to fellow partners.
Though the departure they instigated in early May represented about 8% of the firm’s lawyers, it came on top of an exodus earlier in the year of 30 others. Within days, the firm’s 87-year-old chair, Bob Lewis, who had founded it in 1979, stepped aside for a rejiggered management team. Ultimately, firm leaders chose to provide the media with a curated, partly redacted set of correspondence — a decision that was presented as transparency and which many in the legal field saw as revenge delivered ice cold.
Yet both men appeared to revel in their flagrant disregard for professionalism and decency. In 2013, Ranen told Barber that “if you want to have fun for a second,” he should “keyword search the words ‘c—’ and ‘Jew’ on your email inbox and sent box.”The pair injected mundane work correspondence with antisemitism. Ranen repeatedly used “Jew” as a synonym for haggling over prices: “I might be able to Jew them down to $390,” he wrote in 2016.
When a female lawyer asked for upgrades to the firm lactation room, Ranen forwarded it to a male colleague with speculation about her appearance after bearing two children. He then added, “She could be 200 pounds and acne scarred and after all this time I’d still f— her.”
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