For decades, the law firm founded by the late Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. has been renowned as a black-run institution fighting for civil rights and against police abuse — not to mention getting O.J. Simpson acquitted of murder charges.
But now, in a development that has dismayed some in Los Angeles' African American community, attorney Shawn Chapman Holley has sued the firm, claiming, among other things, that its leaders discriminated against her because she is black.
Holley said that after Cochran's death in 2005, leadership of the firm was turned over to white men who began to discriminate against black lawyers and black clients.
Neither she nor her attorneys would comment on the suit, although she released a statement through her lawyer:
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