Credit: alien185/Adobe Stock Lawsuits Over Big Law Diversity Fellowships Prompt Firms to Scrutinize DEI Program Language
The lawsuits filed this week take particular aim at language contained in the firms' diversity fellowship applications that conservative legal activist Edward Blum's group views as exclusionary against its "white, nondisabled heterosexual man" client.
August 23, 2023 at 03:39 PM
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Diversity
A group led by conservative legal activist Edward Blum filed lawsuits against two Am Law 100 firms on Tuesday alleging discrimination in paid diversity fellowships, prompting others to check the language of their own diversity programs to keep out of Blum's crosshairs.
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