Just clean will be enough, thank you. Advance publicity for Procter & Gamble’s “1990 Black Family Reunion Celebration”: “Attendees will marvel at the vibrant colors of the portable toilets–hot pink, peach and seafoam green.”
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There are 935 partners in Chicago’s seven biggest law firms–Sidley & Austin; Mayer, Brown & Platt; Katten Muchin & Zavis; McDermott, Will & Emery; Kirkland & Ellis; Winston & Strawn; and Jenner & Block–and of that total one is Asian, two are Hispanic, four are black, and 928 are white. Maybe there aren’t enough top-notch Minority lawyers around? Legal placement veteran David J. White tells the Chicago Reporter’s Jennifer Juarez Robles and David Rubenstein otherwise (July/August 1990): “Law firms might hire someone blond and blue-eyed, who just has this winning and confident personality. Anyone who meets this guy [sic] would feel he is going to make it–even though he didn’t go to the University of Chicago or Northwestern. He went to Loyola, graduated in the upper third. This guy could end up in a major firm….I am not going to tell you that a black guy who went to the same school could wind up there; I don’t think he could.”
“In Cook County, where the number of felony cases filed in the Circuit Court increased 88 percent between 1978 and 1988, county spending on the courts and the judiciary increased by only 6.5 percent,” according to the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority’s Trends and Issues 90. And “even as one component of the system improves efficiency and boosts its productivity, other parts of the system may end up losing ground. For example, the Circuit Court of Cook County established five evening courts in October 1989 specifically to handle the influx of drug cases….But the resulting increase in court dispositions has translated into dramatically higher workloads for the county’s probation department….A new probation caseload is being added every week in Cook County–but without the additional probation officer to manage it.”
