{"id":4476,"date":"2025-03-02T20:28:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T20:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/king-spalding-escapes-suit-alleging-summer-minority-internship-program-was-discriminatory\/"},"modified":"2025-03-02T20:28:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T20:28:02","slug":"king-spalding-escapes-suit-alleging-summer-minority-internship-program-was-discriminatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/king-spalding-escapes-suit-alleging-summer-minority-internship-program-was-discriminatory\/","title":{"rendered":"King &#038; Spalding Escapes Suit Alleging Summer Minority Internship Program Was Discriminatory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>A Maryland federal judge on Tuesday threw out a lawsuit in which a former law student claimed that a King &amp; Spalding summer minority internship program was discriminatory, even as law firms&#8217; efforts at promoting diversity are under increased scrutiny, thanks to the posture of the Trump administration. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar said in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/25545363-show-multidocs-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" link-data=\"{\" cms.site.owner=\"\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">opinion <\/a>that former University of Baltimore School of Law student Sarah Spitalnick did not have standing to press her claims against the Atlanta-founded Am Law 50 firm, concluding she failed to allege an intent to apply for a seat in the program.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Maryland federal judge on Tuesday threw out a lawsuit in which a former law student claimed that a King &amp; Spalding summer minority internship program was discriminatory, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[586,4899,4896,4898,428,4897,1187,1184,339,1773],"class_list":["post-4476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-alleging","tag-discriminatory","tag-escapes","tag-internship","tag-king","tag-minority","tag-program","tag-spalding","tag-suit","tag-summer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}