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White people would notice if black jurors simply refused to play along,” he wrote. Mystal is a lawyer and media pundit for the popular website that covers legal wranglings and law gossip.

The mostly white lawyers are packed into the jury box. Once a judge confused me with a tenant, and I had to say, “I am actually a lawyer.” Court officers have said, “Hey, you can’t sit ...

Instead, he was waiting for a carrier to pick up the parcel and redeliver it, he said. "I can’t trust that my white neighbors won’t see me, a Harvard-educated lawyer (or my 14 (yo honor ...

Eleven white people and one Black person now sit on the jury, with only white people serving as alternates. That’s because the defense struck 11 of 12 potential Black jurors.

Much has changed since the first Black women graduated Ohio State’s law school, but Black women are still underrepresented in the legal field.

I am a Black woman and I signed up as a mentor for a law-student-mentoring program at my alma mater. I made a request for a Black mentee, but I was paired with a white woman.