{"id":160304,"date":"2025-03-24T13:19:59","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T21:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=160304"},"modified":"2025-03-24T13:19:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T21:19:59","slug":"does-big-law-love-civil-rights-law-because-it-enhances-big-laws-power-prestige-and-income","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=160304","title":{"rendered":"Does Big Law love civil rights law because it enhances Big Law&#8217;s power, prestige and income?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/yourmoralleader.blogspot.com\/2025\/03\/does-big-law-love-civil-rights-law.html\">Grok says<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Big Law firms engage in civil rights law to enhance their power, prestige, and indirectly their income, rather than out of a deep passion for the field.<br \/>\nResearch suggests that civil rights work, often done pro bono, boosts their reputation and attracts socially conscious clients, which can lead to more business.<br \/>\nThe evidence leans toward Big Law valuing civil rights law for strategic benefits, such as visibility in high-profile cases&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grok says: Big Law firms engage in civil rights law to enhance their power, prestige, and indirectly their income, rather than out of a deep passion for the field. Research suggests that civil rights work, often done pro bono, boosts &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=160304\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[551],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160305,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160304\/revisions\/160305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}