Practice Management

Fineman: Just be cool, Sonia.

By Dan Hull

How big an if? Read Newsweek's Howard Fineman yesterday in "Sotomayor Is a Shoo-In". Excerpts:

There will be a problem, or at least some drama, only if she gets into a Five Borough Fist Fight over any suggestion that she is not qualified or hampered (as opposed to ennobled) by her ethnicity.

My sense from talking to friends and colleagues and briefers going all the way back to Yale Law School: she is far too smart, far too controlled, and far too ambitious to take the bait.

She has not been afraid to use her ethnic background to argue for inclusiveness?for herself and for others?but once near or inside the door she is not an angry agitator. Like everybody else with brains and drive in America, she just wants a seat at the table.

Full post as published by What About Clients? on July 14, 2009 (boomark / email).