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Black Women ‘Don’t Have Time’
For Anger Over Racism at Firms

By ROBERT STORACE

It’s nothing new for McCarter & English
Hartford office managing partner Moy Ogilvie
to walk into a courtroom or other venue and
get asked if she is a clerk, or waiting to see an
attorney.
In fact, the longtime attorney says it happens
quite often to Black lawyers in this country.
“When we enter legal spaces there is a pre-
sumption that we are anything but attorneys,”
said Ogilvie, who works out of the firm’s Hart-
ford offices. “I am regularly assumed to be the
court reporter when entering the room for a de-
position.”
When faced with such situations, Ogilvie de-
Moy Ogilvie, left, and Joelle Murchison, right.

cides to take the route of less conflict. Courtesy photos

“You don’t have time to get angry,” she said. “I McCarter & English initiative
do think that after a certain point in your career, While tensions in race relations has long been
you brace yourself for it. I know many Black attor- an issue in America, it came to the forefront for
neys and attorneys of color who have experienced many people with the May 25 killing of George
similar things.”
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