Remember the scene in “Jerry Maguire” when the title character sends out a mission statement titled “The Things We Think and Do Not Say: The Future of Our Business” to the rest of his sports agency? Well, get ready for the real-life version.this email is meant neither to rouse some rabble or down some debbies or outcrunch some crunchies. quite the opposite – i get excited whenever i get victory emails…but i feel compelled to the point i’m willing to write (and i’m from iowa so imposition is a slow, agonizing death) with a request that we might take a moment (water fountain break, going to nelly and claire’s shop downstairs, getting printouts) to think about how many people (native americans, americans, non-native americans, non-american natives) are bummed today because a mascot they find offensive remains on the second column of the sports page and on a kid’s hat and on espn’s score ticker (and, to a lesser extent, on cnn headline sport’s score ticker)….
The associate’s conscientious objection brought a tongue-lashing from another partner at the firm, who reminded the young lawyer that the firm represented “clients, not causes.” The associate then sent out more messages defending his stance and saying he realized that Quinn Emanuel was not “1. a dating service, 2. a family, and 3. a commune.”
