The Trump administration’s federal contractor police plans to take a closer look at diversity and discrimination at law firms, a Labor Department official said.
“Law firms need to get their houses in order,” Craig Leen, director of the DOL’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, said April 10. “There is a big problem at law firms for women and women of color.”
Leen’s comments at an OFCCP town hall event in New York come amid a growing wave of sex discrimination accusations against large law firms. Six lawyers at Jones Day recently sued the firm, alleging female attorneys are systemically ...
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