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- Flaws and Gaps in Cyrus Mehri's Report on Racism in the Agency Business
- Cyrus Mehri's report on race discrimination in the advertising agency business finds that blacks make 20 percent less than whites, and are under-represented by half at all levels of the industry. But is his report going to lead to the big class-action lawsuit that he's hoping to create? A close...
- Blog posts 2009-01-09
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- AdColor's Call to Arms Raises a Question: Where's Cyrus Mehri's Race Lawsuit?
- AdColor's call to arms in Ad Age -- which urges "changing the paradigm" sigh to increase ad agency diversity -- has a couple of problems. In the wake of Cyrus Mehri's attempt to recruit plaintiffs for a class-action race discrimination lawsuit against Madison Avenue, it looks a bit like an...
- Blog posts 2009-10-07
- In Letter to P&G, Mehri and NAACP Say Talk of Minority Agencies Is "Counter-Productive"
- Cyrus Mehri and the NAACP have sent a strongly worded four-page letter to Procter & Gamble and a couple dozen other major marketers insisting that they force their advertising agencies to use non-white staffers in creative and account management positions. The letter is part of Mehri's plan...
- Blog posts 2009-03-25
- The Results Of Mehri's Findings & The Impending Lawsuit For Blacks In The Ad Industry
- The ad agencies brought this on themselves. AdAge's Ken Wheaton called it in his July 2008 editorial, "Agencies Have Funny Way of Showing 'Commitment' to Diversity". Back then, when agencies failed to show up for The New York City Commission on Human Rights meeting, he said lawyers would come...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Diversity Study Takes Ad Biz to Task
- Cyrus MehriNEW YORK African-Americans in the advertising industry are significantly underrepresented and underpaid compared to their white counterparts, in part due to a "culture in which deeply-embedded racial bias, both conscious and unconscious, creates systematic barriers to inclusion" for black professionals, according to a new study commissioned by civil rights...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Corporate America's scariest opponent
- Plaintiffs' lawyer Cyrus Mehri has forced Texaco, Coca-Cola, and the NFL to alter their diversity practices. His high-stakes racial discrimination class-action suits are changing the face of American business. Cyrus Mehri, the country's preeminent class-action attorney, is prepared to make your job a living hell. Last fall it was...
- Research articles 2003-04-01
- Push to consider minorities for top league job applauded
- Cyrus Mehri smiled with approval Tuesday when reading that outgoing NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue mentioned during a conference call he strongly believes minority candidates should be considered as his replacement. "We think it's very important," said Mehri, the high-powered attorney who helped spearhead the effort that led to the...
- Research articles 2006-03-22
- Advocate: Law could be 'catalyst'
- An attorney prominent in minority-hiring initiatives in the NFL sees Title VII as a potentially effective tool in efforts to increase the number of black head coaches in major-college football. "It can be a catalyst for change," says Cyrus Mehri, a founding partner in a Washington, D.C., law firm and...
- Research articles 2006-09-06
- Minority coaches: Great battle, wrong fight
- Stein, Leland, III Michigan Chronicle 02-18-2003 In the Detroit Lions' battle against the NFL's Diversity Committee, the lines of demarcation are blurred beyond a simple right or wrong retort. I stand strongly behind affirmative action and equal opportunity. So, when ...
- Research articles 2003-02-18
- Martha Burk & Attorney Cyrus Mehri to Discuss New Action Against Masterbs Sponsors (IBM, SBC Communications, Exxon Mobil), Lawsuit Against Citigroup
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- Research articles 2005-04-06
- Promoting NFL minority hiring
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: PROMOTING NFL MINORITY HIRING: Attorneys Johnnie Cochran (far, r) and Cyrus Mehri (2nd, r) discuss the state of minority hiring in the NFL with former NFL players (l-r) Kellen Winslow and Warren Moon. The NFL minority coaches and executives recently formed a group designed to ensure...
- Research articles 2003-03-31
- Division I-A tackles minority hiring
- Responding to years of criticism, the nation's major college athletics directors are drawing up new guidelines they say should improve college football's dismal minority hiring record -- their answer to the NFL's Rooney Rule. "Every struggle for fairness has a turning-point moment, and this is that...
- Research articles 2007-10-03
- Principle of Diverse Candidate Slates for Head Coach Hires: A Major Step in the Right Direction, But Implementation Is the Key
- WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 /U.S. Newswire/-- Following is a joint statement by Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr. and Cyrus Mehri:"Tonight's announcement that the National Football League's Workplace Diversity Committee, chaired by Dan Rooney, proposed and the owners agreed to interview one or more minority candidates for vacant head coaching positions is a...
- Research articles 2002-12-21
- DDB's Scarpelli Wants to Hire Minorities, Is Crucified in Blogosphere for Saying So
- DDB chief creative officer Bob Scarpelli sent a harmless, well-intentioned email to his staff -- and has been crucified for doing so on AgencySpy. The email below simply says that DDB must continue to hire more diversely: Maintaining and increasing diversity in our workplace is a serious...
- Blog posts 2009-02-19
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