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As their legal justification undergoes a reexamination, state programs benefitting a range of professions have become ripe targets for conservative activists.
Over the past two years, as Ishan Bhabha and his colleagues at the law firm Jenner & Block prepared briefs for the affirmative action case the Supreme Court ruled on last year, Bhabha had a realization: If higher education institutions like Harvard were the first target of litigation about diversity, equity and inclusion, America’s corporate boardrooms were probably next. Bhabha began working with dozens of Fortune 500 companies to evaluate their diversity programs and ensure that they were on s
In recent months, hundreds of companies have been reexamining diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives after a series of challenges to those programs.