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Leah Malone Quoted in Bloomberg Law on 2024 Trends and the Outlook for DEI Programs
01.06.25
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Leah Malone, Leader of Simpson Thacher’s Sustainability and ESG Practice, was quoted in an article by Bloomberg Law titled, “Corporate DEI Programs Recoil and Rebrand as Pressure Mounts.” Leah indicated that companies will have to weigh reputational and legal risk if they start reviewing their internal DEI practices. She noted this reflects the broader backlash against how companies can or should have policies centered on ESG goals, plus a “shifting legal landscape” that began with the Supreme Court’s decision barring affirmative action in college admissions. Leah said, “It’s not just all sound and fury; there is also a substantive change in some of the legal standards that we’ve seen courts apply. And there’s some legal reasoning behind a reevaluation of priorities.”
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