Diversity Work Is Surging For Biglaw As Companies Scramble To Keep It Legal
What's next for the lawyers working behind the scenes on diversity, equity, and inclusion?
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Lots of clients are wanting to do audits, review all DEI efforts, board diversity, socially conscious investing to assess risk and figure out what — if any — changes they want to make. There is a never ending tide of stuff.
Right now, you need a lot of creativity and tolerance for risk. All of the banks I have been talking to, their view is we are not going to overreact and abandon our programs. ‘We don’t want this place to look like it did in 1950. We want to do it in a lawful way but we’re not going to run away from it.’
— Jason Schwartz, a partner who runs a DEI taskforce at Gibson Dunn, in comments given to Bloomberg Law on the whirlwind of work concerning corporate diversity programming that has resulted from the Supreme Court’s dismantling of affirmative action.
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