{"id":788,"date":"2024-05-17T15:08:43","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T15:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/lawyer-suing-king-spalding-asks-law-firm-to-apologize-for-diversity-program-exclusion\/"},"modified":"2024-05-19T16:32:34","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T16:32:34","slug":"lawyer-suing-king-spalding-asks-law-firm-to-apologize-for-diversity-program-exclusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/lawyer-suing-king-spalding-asks-law-firm-to-apologize-for-diversity-program-exclusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawyer Suing King &#038; Spalding Asks Law Firm to Apologize for Diversity Program Exclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sarah Spitalnick, a Baltimore <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatrustedlawyers.com\/\">lawyer<\/a>, is trying to strike a hard bargain with King &amp; Spalding. She filed suit against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatrustedlawyers.com\/bankruptcy-lawyers.html\">law firm<\/a> earlier this month, alleging it would not consider her for a summer associate diversity fellowship because she was white and heterosexual.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Spitalnick, a former\u00a0University of Baltimore School of Law student, said she wants the law firm to compensate her for the wages she would have earned from the fellowship\u2014and she comes armed with a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) determination that the law firm allegedly discriminated against her with its requirements.\u00a0\u201cI don\u2019t find discrimination against anyone to be OK,\u201d she said in an interview.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Spitalnick, a Baltimore lawyer, is trying to strike a hard bargain with King &amp; Spalding. She filed suit against the law firm earlier this month, alleging it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1185,1051,1186,1188,184,428,153,107,1187,1184,1183],"class_list":["post-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-apologize","tag-asks","tag-diversity","tag-exclusion","tag-firm","tag-king","tag-law","tag-lawyer","tag-program","tag-spalding","tag-suing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788","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=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":846,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions\/846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}