1 /5 Violet Davis: They seem to have a problem with black women. I cant speak for the entire practice or everyone involved, but the person I spoke to for intake consultation was unwilling to listen and constantly interrupted me but then projected that I "wasnt allowing him to speak" when I calmly answered his questions. I wasnt the one interrupting him, it was the other way around. Every time that he had a question and I answered he then responded as if I was wrong for answering his question directly.
He also indicated at several points that he had failed to understand what I had just explained to him. This prompted me to have to repeat myself more than once to clarify what he was getting incorrect (he repeated back his understanding that didnt align with what I described). He had indicated at one point that the audio quality/connection was bad, so maybe that was a reason why he couldnt follow what I was saying. Nevertheless, this combined with his interrupting me to ask questions and then becoming condescending and accusing me of interrupting him when I answered his questions (always allowing him to finish what he was saying before I started talking) makes me feel the behavior and interaction made working with them intractable. Not because of me, but because of his demeanor and attitude.
Funnily enough I was trying to seek help for a racial discrimination case clearly outlined in written evidence in exchanges between myself and the HR department at my job. It was while discussing the racial discrimination aspect of the employment discrimination (which also included discriminatory action as retaliation for reporting about discrimination) on top of disability accommodations discrimination, that I ran into this odd behavior. At no point when describing the disability accommodations related problems did he exhibit this pattern: it only started after I tried talking about racial discrimination that happened at the company I had worked for.
I dont think this company is a good place to go to if youre dealing with complex (multi-faceted) or racial cases. I am disappointed because it has a good reputation and I had high hopes. Again, I cant speak for everyone and am not trying to suggest that the entire practice/firm is bad, but the person I spoke to was unhelpful in these ways and left me with a bad impression.