New York Employment Lawyer Blog

At our New York City employment law firm, we represent people from all walks of life - the poor and the super rich, mom and pop and the Fortune 500. The most satisfying cases are often the ones in which we help an individual victim of employment discrimination against a powerful corporation. Sadly many lawyers never get to experience the thrill of using the law to help those that need it most.

John Grisham talked about this at a commencement address at Washington and Lee University this Spring. He asked the graduates at tough question: Are you really needed? His answer was yes, lawyers are badly needed, but not in the big corporate law firms or towns with door to door law firms. Grisham said that a lot of people need help. He described the suffering and inequity he saw while researching his books. He urged the graduates to get involved with pro bono organizations such as the Innocence Project. Grisham said, “Until you use your license and your brains and your enthusiasm and your youthfulness to reach out, to reach down and to help someone less fortunate, you won’t realize the power the law has to protect people.” Representing plaintiffs in employment matters does this - it uses the law to protect ordinary people and sometimes it works.