Robinson Bradshaw Settles Fraud Suit Alleging ‘Diversity Props’

A former Robinson Bradshaw & Hinson attorney has settled her fraud lawsuit accusing the firm of using minority lawyers as “diversity props.”

Sharika Robinson, a black former associate, filed her suit in March, claiming the law firm fraudulently uses its few minority lawyers to market itself as a “trailblazer,” despite its mostly white male partnership. The “blatant lies” the firm told about its commitment to diversity deceived Robinson into going to work there, she claimed. The suit also targeted four male partners, three white and one black.

The firm countered that none of the statements Robinson cited contained a factual ...