Frustrated DEI Officers Risk Tackling Workplace Bias in Court

Employees leading corporate diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts are turning to the courts to address discrimination they say they’ve encountered or witnessed at work after finding they lack the tools to address inequities from within.

Armstrong Teasdale LLP is at the center of the latest of such lawsuits, in which its former vice president of DEI is alleging race and sex discrimination in violation of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

The case, filed late last month, alleges that the law firm withheld resources necessary for her to perform her job and subjected Black lawyers to a ...