A lawyer has a lot to lose by taking a public stand against a powerful federal judge. That’s doubly so for a successful associate employed by a huge civil law firm.
That’s the spot Mandy Price found herself last year when—as president of the J.L. Turner Legal Association, Dallas’ historic African-American Bar association—she joined a formal complaint and spoke out against Edith Jones, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, for statements the jurist made during a speech that allegedly showed “racial bias.”
