Is Netflix’s New ‘Partner Track’ Series Too White-Centric?

Summer is finito and everyone’s back in serious mode. But the buzz in Big Law isn’t about the next surprise witness at the Jan. 6 hearing, or how the Supreme Court will decide the Harvard affirmative action case (as if that’s a mystery).

It’s about “Partner Track.” In my neck of the woods, lawyers are talking about the splashy new Netflix show based—rather loosely—on a novel by Helen Wan, a former associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. The story follows Ingrid Yun (portrayed by Arden Cho), a sixth-year mergers and acquisitions associate in New York, as she navigates ...