Law School Admission Council Settles Ex-DEI Manager’s Bias Suit

The Law School Admission Council reached a deal to end race discrimination claims brought by a former diversity, equity, and inclusion manager.

Judge Karen S. Marston dismissed the case with prejudice in an order filed Dec. 5, after the parties notified the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania of a settlement. Ferris Smith in 2022 told LSAC’s vice president and chief diversity officer that her supervisor, the then-DEI director, was discriminating against her because she was Black. Smith claimed that after the director left a few months later, the new DEI director allegedly treated her in a ...