Sidley Austin to Boost Summer Associate Diversity in DOL Pact

Sidley Austin LLP will offer more diversity and inclusion scholarships for summer associates and paid internships in Los Angeles and New York, as part of a settlement with the U.S. Labor Department.

The DOL’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs alleged that Sidley Austin violated equal employment opportunity laws by failing to track the race, sex, and ethnicity of summer associate applicants from March 2011 through May 2012, and from January 2014 through June 2015, according to the Sept. 3 settlement, made public Tuesday. Without that data, the agency said it couldn’t complete a statistical analysis of the firm’s ...