{"id":115206,"date":"2025-04-16T14:28:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T22:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/04\/16\/big-law-firms-quietly-update-diversity-language-as-deadline-passes-to-disclose-data\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T14:28:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T22:28:57","slug":"big-law-firms-quietly-update-diversity-language-as-deadline-passes-to-disclose-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/04\/16\/big-law-firms-quietly-update-diversity-language-as-deadline-passes-to-disclose-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Law Firms Quietly Update Diversity Language, as Deadline Passes to Disclose Data"},"content":{"rendered":"

At least seven law firms that received EEOC letters have made changes to their webpages on DEI commitments, apparently reducing their risks of an extensive investigation.<\/p>\n

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While four Big Law firms have settled with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission over its probe of diversity practices, the agency has remained mum on whether other law firms ultimately disclosed any information or settled after the agency\u2019s Tuesday deadline.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But at least seven firms that received the EEOC’s letter \u2014 including Debevoise & Plimpton; Ropes & Gray; Sidley Austin; Reed Smith; White & Case; Goodwin Procter; and Morgan, Lewis & Bockius \u2014 have quietly made changes to their webpages on diversity, equity and inclusion commitments and firm programming, appearing to reduce their risk of an extensive investigation with the EEOC.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At least seven law firms that received EEOC letters have made changes to their webpages on DEI commitments, apparently reducing their risks of an extensive investigation. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 While four Big Law firms have settled with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission over its probe of diversity practices, the agency has remained mum on whether other law […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":115207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/legal-news-QqYmyp.jpeg?fit=767%2C633&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}