I’ll make rather short work of this, as the chucklehead put it behind his paywall, perhaps knowing that it was… a clunker. In any event, whatever he says is of no moment, as the market has long since moved away from his bleatings. He has become… irrelevant in today’s law firm / law school recruitment and retention marketplace. [As has that small cadre of judges saying they won’t hire Stanford grads (four at last count — all MAGA/Trumpy appointed loons). Yawn.]

So, Paul Mirengoff complains that the BLSA at Stanford announced it would boycott recruiting events at the Law School. This means at least two things: (i) the people of color who visit the school to think about going there — or, for example to Harvard, Yale or the U of C… may not meet many (any?) Black current law students. That will, in turn, reduce the number who enroll. It will impact Stanford’s scoring on diversity and inclusion. That is important, despite what the embittered, senile old whyte codgers at “Reckoning” and Powerline think (all former Ivy or Stanford lawyers).

And… second (ii) it will mean the top flight firms (ones that also get scored by their Fortune 200 clients on how well they do at recruiting and promoting for inclusion) will be unlikely to meet many people of color, as candidates for law firm summer associate, or permanent hire seats.

What the decrepit old Paul doesn’t understand… is the bargaining power top flight Black and brown law students in particular weild — and have been leveraging for a decade or more.

Long gone is the world where a few old whyte male senior partner / rainmaker lawyers hired primarily from the ranks of their country club buddies’ families.

Without a pipeline to very capable diverse candidates, these firms will shun Stanford and focus on Chicago and the East Coast.

Karma is… a b!tch, Paul. Get used to it.