On Wednesday of this week, a guy named Craig Leen — Director of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs in the Department of Labor — showed up in Manhattan to hold a “town hall” meeting with representatives of major law firms. The event was covered at law.com here, and then commented on by Paul Mirengoff at Power Line here. The headline of the law.com piece is “Government Warns Law Firms of Consequences for Diversity Failures.” Mirengoff characterizes the DOL's effort as “seek[ing] to impose a radical diversity agenda on law firms.”
The gist of Leen's presentation was that you guys have a big problem here that you need to “fix,” or there will be consequences.
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