I passed the California bar exam!! I did that!!!
Attorney Carson (they/them)
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Attorney Carson (they/them)
@OctaviaViento
Attorney | CA & DC Bar | founder @blackbarappfund
- My friend got shot at by cops the other day in ATL and police said it was because her headlights weren’t and bc she didn’t stop immediately. She is a lawyer with a BMW, the headlights are on auto, and she pulled over as soon as it was safe 😤 I’m livid!! I’m f-ing pissed.
- White women used to be only 3% of the legal profession until after affirmative action. The percentage of white women lawyers quickly rose to 30%!! Meanwhile Black lawyers remained stagnant at 4-5% this entire time!
- Black lawyers let’s start a thread so that other Black lawyers can follow us here. Put up your headshots too ✨
I follow so many Black lawyers on here and I love it. A perfectly curated timeline. ✨ - After I graduated from law school my aunty told me that she always wanted to go to law school but she couldn’t find a pathway. I talked to her about going to law school & doing what she dreamed because it’s never too late. Today she got accepted to law school with a scholarship!!
- I just got my DC Bar number. It’s official official now! Octavia L. Carson, Esq.
- As an employment law attorney, don’t listen to this advice! You need to make written complaints to your bosses and HR. Keep a copy of those complaints so that you can give it to a lawyer. Do not go to the EEOC before consulting with a lawyer because…Y’all pls stop going to HR. Always look into the EEOC first. -signed someone who works in HR
- Replying to @OctaviaVientoShe’s traumatized. WTF?!
- Replying to @OctaviaVientoWhen she was first telling me I thought it was random men following her but I heard her wrong. It was the police! 😤
- Replying to @OctaviaVientoShe is alive. She has PTSD, of course but she’s alive.
- Non-lawyers usually don’t know what a judicial law clerk does, so I’m just going to start telling them I’m a ghost writer for judges 🤷🏽
- Replying to @OctaviaVientoI’ve been having so many dreams about shootings and ruminating so much about my family and friends being vulnerable to assaults by police. I want us leave this country so bad.
- COVID took my law school graduation from me and I’m sad about that. But I’m happy that my school opted to delay for an in-person graduation instead of a virtual graduation. My black American family deserves to see their first law school grad give her Valedictorian speech and
- Replying to @suffragite and @karenkhoShe has retained an attorney.
