Ex-Balch & Bingham Attorneys are Now Federal Prison Inmates 04104-510 and 35504-001

Convicted pedophile and ex-Balch & Bingham attorney Chase T. Espy is now inmate 04104-510 at the Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, while ex-Balch partner Joel I. Gilbert, convicted of money laundering and bribery in the North Birmingham Bribery Scandal, is inmate 35504-001 at the Federal Prison Camp in Montgomery, Alabama.

Balch has boasted these last five-years of expanding their footprint in the Southeast, and now the embattled firm can add two convicted felons in Atlanta and Montgomery.

Both convicted felons represented Southern Company, one of Balch’s top clients currently in the middle of a sex and accounting scandal.

With only 2 percent of Balch partners being people of color, the alleged racist law firm’s partners are 98 percent white while their esteemed convicts are 100 percent white.

So desperate to hide their racist and segregationist past, and links to Governor George Wallace and a Ku Klux Klan scandal, Balch recently added their Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer on their professionals list of attorneys and lobbyists, even though she is not involved in any practice area of law nor participates in government relations.

No other Balch officers are listed on the professional pages.

Neither the Chief Operating Officer, Director of Human Resources, Director of Finance, Director of Client and Community Engagement, Chief Information Officer, nor the Chief Marketing Officer.

Could it because that they are all white?

Tokenism. Tokenism of partners. Tokenism of attorneys. And now tokenism of management officers on their website.

How embarrassing!

But then again Balch managing partner Stan Blanton is collecting make-believe awards for diversity and inclusion.

And then they wonder why others are laughing.