Crisis Could Be Big Test of Law Firms’ Diversity Efforts

Here are the day’s top coronavirus stories from the team at Bloomberg Law:

• DIVERSITY LOSSES: Firms are turning to layoffs, pay cuts, and furloughs to weather the economic storm caused by the pandemic, and diversity experts are anxious that minority lawyers and the efforts designed to help them could bear the worst of the financial pain.
• CONSIDERING HEALTH POLICIES: Covid-19 is pushing some of the Trump administration’s top health priorities to the backburner. The pandemic is drawing agency staff and resources away from policies such as curbing drug prices, lowering new HIV infections in the U.S., ...