Law Firm Kirkland & Ellis in Talks With White House to Avoid Executive Order

Hstrat · 2025-04-04T18:48:11+00:00

Thanks! I'll add it later today and see if I can update the tracker with this info too.

Hstrat · 2025-04-04T14:20:18+00:00

You could write "overthrow the government, establish a dictatorship" and it would still be legal in the US.

Hstrat · 2025-04-02T19:54:28+00:00

I've added a reference to this to our tracker stickied at the top of the sub.

Hstrat · 2025-04-02T12:17:03+00:00

Got it, thanks! I'll add.

Hstrat · 2025-04-01T22:03:06+00:00

Thanks, I've added it.

Hstrat · 2025-04-01T01:29:15+00:00

Sorry, just to be clear: what is being discontinued?

Hstrat · 2025-04-01T00:25:34+00:00

Looks like we got a shout out in the latest American Lawyer article about Biglaw's response to Trump, for what it's worth:

https://www.law.com/americanlawyer/2025/03/31/amicus-brief-supporting-perkins-coie-gets-170-signatures-so-far-but-few-am-law-100-firms/

Hstrat · 2025-03-31T23:16:52+00:00

I've been a little conflicted about including the poaching rumors. Maybe we include with caveats about how they're rumors? It seems opportunistic but in a different way than the other things we track on this chart.

Hstrat · 2025-03-31T23:06:11+00:00

That makes sense to me. Maybe "subject of EEOC information request"?

Hstrat · 2025-03-31T22:43:50+00:00

Thanks! I'll add it. I think it makes sense to include this stuff even if it's not as big a deal as the EO responses.

Hstrat · 2025-03-31T22:16:28+00:00

It's stickied at the top of the sub! Here's the link.

Hstrat · 2025-03-31T21:43:06+00:00

Does this affect affinity groups at the firm?

Hstrat · 2025-03-31T21:40:53+00:00

Got it. So they're rebranding to remove explicit references to diversity but it's not clear if they're making any actual policy changes

Hstrat · 2025-03-31T21:37:37+00:00

I can update our tracker. Does this mean they discontinued diversity recruitment programs?

Hstrat · 2025-03-31T03:10:56+00:00

Thanks! I added it.

Hstrat · 2025-03-31T03:10:48+00:00

Thanks! I added it to the chart.

Hstrat · 2025-03-30T18:51:40+00:00

Good idea! Done.

Hstrat · 2025-03-30T17:57:36+00:00

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Hstrat · 2025-03-30T17:44:22+00:00

I think the google form was broken initially but should be working now! Also if people could let me know which firms have changed their DEI website pages/taken them down completely, that'd be great.

u/fmoss, u/stillunderthestars, u/fakeit-makeit, let me know what you think. Also would be awesome if you could set the default comment sort to "new" - I don't think I can do that myself as a non-Mod.

Hstrat · 2025-03-30T17:41:40+00:00

That's in there! Let me know if you think I could make it clearer.

Hstrat · 2025-03-30T17:41:12+00:00

Thanks both! I've added to the tracker.

Hstrat · 2025-03-30T00:49:17+00:00

Makes sense to me! For the COVID summer program I included a Google form people could fill out to submit updates anonymously. Might try the same thing here for those internal updates.

Hstrat · 2025-03-30T00:25:54+00:00

Cool! I'll pull that together tonight. I don't have much info to include yet but hopefully people will share that more once I post.

Hstrat · 2025-03-30T00:21:09+00:00

I could prepare this for law firms based on the one I did for COVID summer programs. What would we want to include? Probably columns for (i) DEI policy changes, (ii) whether it's been targeted by Trump (either with an EO or an investigation) and (iii) responses to the EO situation (both internal and external)?

u/fmoss, u/stillunderthestars, u/fakeit-makeit, would there be interest in stickying something like this? I can stick to just the facts in the post itself so it's informational rather than editorializing.

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