The New York Post obtained exchanges between two prominent attorneys rife with sexist, racist, and homophobic language.
exposed a raft of emails between a pair of powerhouse attorneys who led an exodus from Los Angeles-based mega-firm Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith last month, in which the pair referred to women as “cunts,” Black people as “savages,” a colleague as a “f*g”—and even a judge as “sugar tits.”
Neither John Barber nor Jeff Ranen, the former Lewis Brisbois partners, immediately responded to phone calls from The Daily Beast.published include numerous other slurs, ranging from “fudgepacker” to the n-word, and included numerous crude jabs at fellow employees of their old firm. “Kill her by anal penetration,” Barber wrote to Ranen regarding another attorney’s request for overtime.of George Floyd in Minnesota, the duo—who formed their own eponymous firm in May with more that 140 fellow Lewis Brisbois defectors—shared racist reminiscences of the 1992 riots following the LAPD beating of Rodney King.
“I can’t even imagine what it was like living in Larchmont in 1992 when the savages decimated Koreatown,” wrote Ranen.“As buildings burned within a mile or so that night, we had a party, got wasted, and yelled inappropriate things from the balcony,” he replied.also reported reviewing multiple messages containing the slur “f**got,” and one in which Ranen said “gypsy”—an archaic and sometimes offensive term for Romani people—was his “new word to describe about half of the minorities in California.
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