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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just saw this press release from Sen. Tom Cotton. I remember in law school being surprised firms were allowed to have “diversity 1L” jobs that were only given to URM applicants in practice. Seems like maybe they never were allowed to.

https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases/cotton-warns-top-law-firms-about-race-based-hiring-practices[/quote]

A lot of these programs are broad and include [b]first-gen and veterans[/b]. Sorry, OP, I think a lot of the corporate diversity stuff is going to survive. [/quote]

If that’s true they won’t have a problem. I don’t think it is true, though. In fact I think you’ll find internal emails that expressly say 1L diversity programs are intended for URM applicants. Because that’s what my T10 OCS said the firms intended. [/quote]

Under-represented minorities doesn’t necessarily mean only racial/ethnic minorities…

Anyway the firms will just add extra groups to CYA and move on. You’re not going to get reparations from being excluded from some program once upon a time when it might have been more narrowly focused…[/quote]

Language doesn't resolve the liability if it's actually provably a racially discriminatory program. The discussions I have seen on this topic are not ones I would want to hand over in discovery, from the perspective of a law firm.

With respect to "reparations," you're suggesting there's no damages theory, I think you're wrong there too. [/quote]

Then good luck getting to discovery. And what exactly is your damages theory? There will be no point in injunctive relief or a declaratory judgment because firms will pro-actively expand these programs (if they are already so broad - and in my recent experience they already are really broad) voluntarily. Firms don’t really care about this stuff in the end - they reluctantly instituted a lot of the DEI crap at the behest of woke clients - so they are not going to fight like Harvard/UNC did.[/quote]

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