Diversity and Inclusion in the Legal Profession (May 21, 2025)

Recent reports on diversity and inclusion within in law firms, corporations, and the workplace at large.

• "EEOC Asked to Probe Claims of Bias in Law Firm Intern Program," Bloomberg Law

• "Anti-DEI Group Asks EEOC to Investigate 'Discriminatory' Big Law Fellowship Program," The American Lawyer

• "The business case for inclusion at law firms: data-driven, business-aligned strategies," Canadian Lawyer

• "Big Law Doesn't Give a Damn About Its Young Lawyers," Vivia Chen

• "Skadden, Milbank Say EEOC Request Is Resolved as Part of Deal With Trump," The National Law Journal

• "ABA Bows to Trump, Delays Law School Diversity Rule Again," Bloomberg Law

• "Law Firms Tiptoe Forward With Diversity Under Trump Scrutiny," Bloomberg Law

• "DEI, Immigration Policy Shifts Putting Legal, HR Teams to the Test," Corporate Counsel

• "Potential For DEI-Related Suits Vexes Employers, Report Says," Law360

• "New McCarthy DEI chief says firm not rolling back inclusion initiatives," Canadian Lawyer

• "War on DEI Spurring Companies to Pull Out a Thesaurus, Not a White Flag," Corporate Counsel

• "Reed Smith Withholds Documents From EEOC While in Talks," Bloomberg Law

• "Judge Presses Government on Reasoning Behind Susman Godfrey Executive Order," The National Law Journal

• "Under Trump pressure, ABA poised to suspend law school DEI rule into 2026," Reuters

• "Trump's 'Enemies List' of Law Firms: The Real Costs of the DEI and Ideological Crackdown," The American Lawyer

• "After DOJ Points to 'Problematic' Mansfield Purpose, Creators Cite Legal Framework," The American Lawyer

• "Law Students Sue EEOC Over Demands for Big Law DEI Hiring Data," The Legal Intelligencer

• "Trump's Scrutiny Spurs Employers to Consider Social Class in DEI," Bloomberg Law

• "Scrapping Nonbinary Marker Risks Muddling EEOC Workforce Reports," Bloomberg Law

• "US pressure is no excuse for the Canadian legal profession to abandon DEI," Canadian Lawyer

• "JD Degrees Awarded to People of Color Reaches All-Time High in 2024," The American Lawyer

• "Law Schools Admit More Men, But More Women Are Applying," Law360

• "US probes Harvard and its law review for 'race-based discrimination,'" Reuters

• "Harvard Probed by US Agencies for Law Review Discrimination," Bloomberg Law

• "Free Market Free-For-All? How the Decline of OCI Broadened Big Law's Recruitment Pool — and Added Anxiety," Law.com

• "Perkins Coie Spurns Trump Diversity Probe Request Citing Lawsuit," Bloomberg Law

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