The Law Firm That Called Me The N-Word: My Days of Race Discrimination, Sexual Harassment, and Retaliation at The Law Offices of Chadbourne & Parke LLP

Webster Edgewood

Nov 2016 · Webster Edgewood

About this ebook

 The Law Firm That Called Me The N-Word is based on the true story of a mailroom clerk, who was hired days after another mailroom clerk was accidentally killed at the New York office of the top international law firm of Chadbourne & Parke LLP.  While working at Chadbourne & Parke, the mailroom clerk faced gender and race discrimination, and was repeatedly called “Nigger,” and sexually harassed on numerous occasions.  After opposing Chadbourne & Parke’s wage and hour violations, the mailroom clerk was retaliated against, and wrongfully terminated.  Therefore, the mailroom clerk took matters into his own hands, and single-handedly battled the global law firm in a court of law.

About the author

Webster Edgewood was born in Brooklyn, New York, where he was the salutatorian of his graduating class at William E. Grady Vocational and Technical High School. While in high school, Edgewood excelled in business law, economics, and accounting. 

After earning The New York State and The New York City Merit Scholarships, Edgewood attended Brooklyn College, and received a bachelor’s degree. As a Dean's List scholar, Edgewood studied mass media and journalism. He also attended New York City College of Technology, where he focused on law and paralegal studies. 

While studying at Brooklyn College, Edgewood wrote for his college’s newspaper - The Excelsior, and went on to write for Foxsports.com, Boxingscene.com, Fightnews.com and other websites, where he covered boxing. Aside from being a boxing journalist, Edgewood was an electrifying amateur boxer, where he excited the New York crowd in the New York Golden Gloves, the Empire State Games, and at the age of 18, he became one of the youngest super-heavyweight amateur champions, when he won the New York State Metropolitan Games Championship. 

As an academic attacker, he was the recipient of The Joey Fariello Memorial Scholarship for Boxing and Scholastic Excellence. Edgewood was also awarded the Presidential Award of Educational Excellence (During The Bill Clinton Administration), The New England Society In The City of Brooklyn Award For Excellence in the Study of History, and the ABENY Award (The Association of Black Educators of New York).

As an author, Edgewood has been writing books for over 10 years, and was interviewed by Smart Money - The Wall Street Journal Magazine, while some of his works focused on corporations committing financial and consumer fraud.