Dozens of junior associates from three Bay Area law offices have joined a nationwide petition urging their bosses to fight back against the Trump Administration’s claims that their diversity hiring programs may violate federal civil rights laws.
So far, the partners of Morrison Foerster based in San Francisco, Cooley in Palo Alto and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, a British firm with a Redwood City office, have yet to speak up publicly. Their offices were among 20 across the county that...