'People Are Livid': Lawyers React to Texas Bar Committee's Decision on Implicit-Bias Training

Rudy Metayer, chairman of the State Bar of Texas African American Lawyers Section; Judge Victor Villarreal of Webb County Court-at-Law No. 2; Texas Bar President-elect Sylvia Borunda Firth; Sarah Springer, founding attorney in The Springer Law Firm …

Rudy Metayer, chairman of the State Bar of Texas African American Lawyers Section; Judge Victor Villarreal of Webb County Court-at-Law No. 2; Texas Bar President-elect Sylvia Borunda Firth; Sarah Springer, founding attorney in The Springer Law Firm in Katy; Rudy Gonzales Jr., a partner in Hilliard Martinez Gonzales in Corpus Christi Courtesy photos

"There are a lot of things in this country and things in the world where people got upset. But you do what is right because it is right," said Rudy Metayer, chairman of the State Bar of Texas African American Lawyers Section.

Livid.

It’s the word that Rudy Metayer used to describe the feelings of himself and other members of the State Bar of Texas African American Lawyers Section when they learned that a bar committee unanimously recommended against mandatory implicit-bias training for Texas attorneys.

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