My biggest and most famous lawsuit was about employment discrimination against women and minorities; it was an immediate societal success. I have since figured out why it succeeded.
The case was brought in 1971 by Bob Gnaida of the law firm Public Advocates against the Bank of California. We won and the decision demanded an aggressive program with supporting money to promote women and minorities into management at all levels, promptly. I brought the suit after leaving the Bank of California as a Vice President. I took with me all the incriminating internal evidence.
The major banks in America signed consent decrees to the settlement and banking quickly became the most integrated industry in America.
I tried to establish similar anti-discrimination lawsuits in housing and private clubs.
In housing I carried out many ventures with my wife in trying to rent apartments in upper income neighborhoods where we were followed by black couples (friends) who tried to rent the same apartments on the same day. They never could rent the same apartments that we could. We had overwhelming evidence of discrimination against blacks but were never able to put together a lawsuit. No law firm and no government agency would take the many cases offered.
Unlike the banking case where I had overwhelming computer printout payroll evidence, as was true throughout banking, in the case of housing, there were countless acceptable semi-legal reasons given by landlords for their preference for white renters.
In the case of private clubs Congress amended the anti-discrimination laws to exclude private clubs with less than 200 members and included only club lunches because the rest of the private club world didn’t directly seem to involve business issues.