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Executive Order 14173: How Public Companies’ DEI Initiatives May Be Targeted and Key Actions to Take Now

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On January 21, 2025, President Trump signed Executive Order 14173, titled “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity” (the “Order”), which, among other actions, directs all executive departments and...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

Constangy’s 10 must-read articles of 2024

As we welcome 2025, here are 10 must-read Constangy bulletins and blog posts from 2024, highlighting insights that guided our readers through important legal developments, workplace issues, and the challenges in cybersecurity...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Nasdaq Board Diversity Rules Overturned by US Court of Appeals

On December 11, 2024, in Alliance for Fair Board Recruitment v. SEC, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled in a 9-8 vote that the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) adoption of the Nasdaq board diversity...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

The Supreme Court’s Affirmative Action Opinion Continues To Spawn Challenges to DEI Programs

Key Points - - In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in Students for Fair Admissions, challenges to DEI initiatives have focused on programs that facially appear to provide a zero-sum advantage based on protected...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Potential Private Sector Implications of the Supreme Court's Affirmative Action Ruling

The U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in the cases Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College and Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. University of North Carolina upended prior...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Employment Flash - September 2022

This edition summarizes key employment law developments over the past six months, including amendments to the rules implementing the SEC’s whistleblower program, partnerships among U.S. federal agencies to prevent...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

SEC Diversity Assessment Reports on Policies and Practices for Investment Advisers, Private Fund Advisers, Broker-Dealers and...

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Recently, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of Minority and Women Inclusion (“OMWI”) released its Diversity Assessment Report for regulated entities, including investment advisers, private fund advisers and...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Employment Flash - July 2015

The July 2015 edition of Employment Flash covers a number of developments, including: the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling that job applicants need only show that a religious accommodation was a factor in denying employment to...more

K&L Gates LLP

Federal Financial Regulatory Agencies Release Final Diversity Standards

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After lengthy consideration, six federal financial regulatory agencies—the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Federal Reserve Board of Governors, Federal Deposit Insurance...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Six Federal Regulators Issue Final Interagency Policy Statement on Diversity Policies and Practices of Regulated Entities

On June 9, the Federal Reserve Board, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, National Credit Union Administration, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and Securities and Exchange...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Corporate & Financial Weekly Digest - Volume X, Issue 23

In This Issue: - Meeting of the SEC Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies - FINRA Requests Comment on a Proposed Rule to Require Delivery of an Educational Communication to Customers of a Transferring...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

CFPB: Industry should “start now” to comply with workplace diversity and inclusion standards

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On June 26, 2014, I participated in a panel presentation at the MBA Strategic Markets and Diversity Summit, in Washington, D.C. Stuart Ishimaru, Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Office of Minority and...more

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