Two founding partners resigned from a Los Angeles law firm after their former law firm released a slew of emails showing their use of racist, sexist and anti-LGBTQ+ slurs.
John Barber and Jeffrey Ranen left the firm they recently launched. Both served in the labor and employment practice, defending corporations against harassment and discrimination lawsuits. Barber and Ranen did not respond to emails seeking comment.
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Name Change
The law firm Barber Ranen has changed its name, a firm spokesperson said, after the publication of racist, antisemitic, homophobic and violently misogynistic emails written by Barber and Ranen. The firm will now be called Daugherty Lordan.
Barber and Ranen resigned on June 5, after their former law firm, Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, released dozens of emails the two wrote while working there. The pair formed Barber Ranen in May, bringing nearly 140 lawyers with them from their former firm.
(Reuters)
Prejudiced Language
Lewis Brisbois released scores of emails in which Barber and Ranen used vile terms for women, Black people, Armenians, Persians and gay men and traded in offensive stereotypes of Jews and Asians. The emails stretched back 15 years.
In an investigation, the firm found "unacceptable, prejudiced language" that was "aimed at our colleagues, clients, attorneys from other firms, and even judges," the firm said in a statement.
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