October 11, 2023
The anti-affirmative action group American Alliance for Equal Rights on Wednesday dropped its Texas federal lawsuit over the diversity fellowship program at Perkins Coie LLP, after the firm did away with the program's previous requirement that applicants come from underrepresented groups.
October 06, 2023
Morrison Foerster LLP and Perkins Coie LLP said on Friday that they will stop using race as the main factor in selecting applicants for their diversity, equity and inclusion fellowships for law students after they had become the targets of lawsuits in August that accused them of racially discriminating against nonminorities.
September 21, 2023
The legal teams squaring off in a pair of lawsuits over diversity fellowship programs at Perkins Coie LLP and Morrison Foerster LLP have a personal stake in the issue — plaintiff's counsel Consovoy McCarthy PLLC argued the recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings the cases build on, while Perkins Coie's counsel at Jenner & Block LLP lead a team created to deal with those rulings' fallout.
August 22, 2023
A conservative group whose founder sparked the demise of affirmative action in college admissions this year sued Perkins Coie LLP and Morrison Foerster LLP on Tuesday over their diversity fellowship programs for law students, saying they discriminate against nonminority applicants.