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[Webinar] 180 Days of the Trump Administration—Quick Hits on Executive Orders, Actions, and Policies - July 17th - August 13th,...

Blank Rome LLP on 7/3/2025

Blank Rome presents a new summer webinar series where our interdisciplinary team will unpack the most pressing legal, regulatory, and policy developments from the Trump Administration’s first 180 days. Each session offers...more

Regulatory Ramblings: Episode 72 - Cultural Roots, Belonging, and the Fear of Change: What’s Next for Inclusion?

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist on 6/25/2025

The conversation begins with Jeiz chatting with Regulatory Ramblings host Ajay Shamdasani about what drew her to DEI from her previous role in HR. They discuss what a DEI manager’s role entails daily and why support for DEI...more

Daily Compliance News: March 25, 2025, The AI Skills Edition

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist on 3/25/2025

Welcome to the Daily Compliance News. Each day, Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance, brings you compliance-related stories to start your day. Sit back, enjoy a cup of morning coffee, and listen to the Daily Compliance News—all...more

MoFo’s State + Local Government Enforcement Newsletter (February 2025)

Morrison & Foerster LLP on 3/24/2025

Morrison Foerster’s State and Local Government Task Force is pleased to provide our bimonthly newsletter summarizing some of the most important and interesting developments from state attorneys general (State AGs) across the...more

North Carolina Bill Would Prohibit DEI Practices for Range of Employers

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP on 3/21/2025

Employers are fully aware of federal executive orders prohibiting the use of illegal diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies by federal agencies or federal contractors. State legislatures across the country have...more

Sustainability and ESG Advisory Practice Update, February 2025

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati on 3/12/2025

We are pleased to share the February 2025 issue of Wilson Sonsini's Sustainability and ESG Advisory Practice Update. Each issue combines news, key legal developments, and resources related to sustainability and environmental,...more

Recent DEI Executive Orders Temporarily Blocked by Federal Judge

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC on 3/4/2025

On February 21, Judge Adam B. Abelson of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland issued a preliminary injunction that temporarily bars the Trump administration from implementing major portions of two...more

Court Limits Trump Administration's Executive Orders on DEI: Employer Impact

Baker Donelson on 3/3/2025

Summary of Executive Orders - As we have referenced in prior alerts, the Trump administration issued two Executive Orders relating to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs for federal contractors, with language...more

Preparing for the 2025 Reporting Season: Proxy Season Reminders

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati on 3/3/2025

With the 2025 proxy season upon us, this Alert highlights governance, disclosure, and engagement considerations for companies preparing for their 2025 annual meetings. Many of the governance and disclosure matters discussed...more

What U.S. Employers Need to Know about Upcoming DEI Executive Orders

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC on 2/13/2025

On the first day of President Trump’s second administration, he signed the Ending Racial and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing Executive Order. This order provides direction to eliminate any and all Diversity,...more

DOJ Signals Potential Criminal Enforcement Against Private Sector for Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) and Diversity Equity...

McCarter & English, LLP on 2/11/2025

On February 5, 2025, upon her swearing-in, US Attorney General Pamela Bondi issued multiple policy memoranda identifying various priorities of the Department of Justice (DOJ) under the Trump Administration. Among them is a...more

Trump rescinds Executive Order 11246

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP on 1/23/2025

President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Executive Order 11246 in 1965. Since then, organizations doing business with the federal government had to affirmatively recruit women and minorities for employment and ensure employment...more

MoFo’s State + Local Government Enforcement Newsletter (December 2024)

Morrison & Foerster LLP on 1/9/2025

Morrison Foerster’s State and Local Government Task Force is pleased to provide our bimonthly newsletter summarizing some of the most important and interesting developments from state attorneys general (State AGs) across the...more

SEC Reporting Update - December 2024

Snell & Wilmer on 12/31/2024

Insider Trading Policies. As previously discussed in our Winter 2022-2023 Corporate Communicator, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) adopted final rules in December 2022 relating to insider trading policy...more

Ensure Your Supplier Diversity Program Meets Legal Requirements and Thrives

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 10/17/2024

Supplier diversity programs are business initiatives designed to include businesses owned by traditionally underrepresented groups in companies’ supply chains. Effective supplier diversity programs expand supplier bases,...more

Everything You Need for the 2026 Diversity Immigrant Visa Program (DV-2026)

Nilan Johnson Lewis PA on 10/7/2024

At the beginning of each federal fiscal year (October), the Department of State conducts a lottery called the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program. If a person is selected, they are eligible to submit an application for permanent...more

Clinical Trials: FDA Publishes Draft Guidance on Diversity Action Plans

Foley & Lardner LLP on 7/26/2024

On June 26, 2024, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released draft guidance addressing use of diversity action plans (Plans) in the conduct of clinical research entitled “Diversity Action Plans to Improve Enrollment...more

Missouri Attorney General Sues IBM Over its DEI Practices: How Companies Can Prepare for the Next Round of DEI Litigation

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 6/26/2024

Within weeks of the Supreme Court’s decision striking down affirmative action in college admissions last year, Republican attorneys general for 13 states sent a letter to Fortune 100 CEOs condemning their DEI initiatives in...more

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