Goodwin Procter’s decision to share over 200 pages of information with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission shows what has been some law firms’ low appetite for confrontation with the Trump administration.
The firm shared race, sex, gender, and law school affiliation of applicants who applied to Sponsors for Educational Opportunities legal fellowships and Leadership Council for Legal Diversity programs at the firm, and it revealed it ended a relationship with SEO and suspended ties with LCLD. Goodwin also axed a requirement for future applicants to demonstrate a “commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion,” a widely-embraced criteria in Big Law’s fellowship ...
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