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Firm News 33 results

Firm News | 3 min read | 02.19.25

Crowell & Moring Lawyers Named to Leadership Council on Legal Diversity’s 2025 Fellows and Pathfinder Programs

Washington – February 19, 2025: Leadership Council on Legal Diversity has selected partner Randa Adra as a member of its 2025 class of Fellows. In addition, associate Tiffany Aguiar and counsel Derick Dailey have been named to the LCLD 2025 class of Pathfinders.
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Firm News | 3 min read | 02.20.24

Crowell & Moring Lawyers Named to Leadership Council on Legal Diversity’s 2024 Fellows and Pathfinder Programs

Leadership Council on Legal Diversity has selected Sima Namiri-Kalantari as a member of its 2024 class of Fellows. In addition, associates Roy Abernathy and Ashleigh Kaspari have been named to the LCLD 2024 class of Pathfinders.

Firm News | 1 min read | 10.20.23

LCLD Recognizes Crowell & Moring as a 2023 Top Performer and Compass Award Winner

Washington – October 20, 2023: The Leadership Council on Legal Diversity awarded Crowell & Moring its Top Performer and Compass awards, noting the firm’s commitment to building a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive organization and legal profession. This marks the seventh consecutive year that the firm has been honored with these distinctions.
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Client Alerts 26 results

Client Alert | 2 min read | 06.18.25

Crowell’s DEI and Civil Fraud Initiative

Underscoring the Administration’s intention to eradicate DEI preferences and mandates, the Department of Justice (DOJ) launched a new Civil Rights Fraud Initiative (Initiative) to be co-led by DOJ’s Civil Rights Division and Fraud Section. In response, Crowell launched its own DEI and Civil Fraud Initiative to support clients in managing the heightened risks associated with this new enforcement landscape.
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Client Alert | 2 min read | 06.06.25

Supreme Court Unanimously Rejects Sixth Circuit’s “Background Circumstances” Requirement For “Reverse Discrimination” Cases

On Thursday, June 5, 2025, the Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services, rejecting the "background circumstances" rule that would require majority-group plaintiffs to meet a heightened evidentiary standard in Title VII discrimination cases. The decision vacated and remanded the case for further consideration by the Sixth Circuit. In so doing, the Court held that all plaintiffs – whether minority or majority employees – bringing discrimination cases under Title VII are subject to the same evidentiary standards under the McDonnell Douglas framework for evaluating disparate-treatment claims.
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Client Alert | 2 min read | 04.29.25

President Trump Issues Executive Order Deprioritizing Disparate Impact Theory of Discrimination

On April 23, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order, Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy, declaring it the policy of the United States “to eliminate the use of disparate-impact liability in all contexts to the maximum degree possible to avoid violating the constitution, Federal civil rights laws, and basic American ideals.” The order reasons that “disparate impact liability all but requires individuals and businesses to consider race and engage in racial balancing to avoid potentially crippling legal liability.”
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Press Coverage 31 results

Press Coverage | 06.20.22

Apple, Google GCs Among LCLD Members Making Public Diversity Pledges

The Global Legal Post

Press Coverage | 09.21.21

LCLD To Require Law Firm And GC Members To Make Public, Measurable Diversity Pledges

The American Lawyer
The American Lawyer*quotes partner Ellen Dwyer, chair of the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD) and chair of the firm’s Executive Committee, regarding the need for LCLD’s membership of general counsel and managing partners to make personal commitments as leaders to make progress in improving diversity in their organizations.  *subscription required
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Publications 2 results

Publication | 01.09.19

Labor and Employment – The States Step into #MeToo

Crowell & Moring's Litigation Forecast 2019

Events 3 results

Event | 10.29.15, 4:30 AM EDT - 9:30 AM EDT

Bloomberg BNA Diversity & Inclusion Summit

Diversity and inclusion are essential to the growth and prosperity of any organization. Diversity of perspectives, experiences, cultures, genders, and age breeds innovation, while inclusion ensures that everyone has the opportunity to contribute to that success and that the diversity play is not just a tick box on a corporate score card. 
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Event | 09.28.15 - 09.29.15, 12:00 AM UTC - 12:00 AM UTC

Sixth Annual LCLD Membership Meeting

Over the past five years, as the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD) has grown in size and scope, the pace of change in all aspects of legal services has accelerated, driven by the forces of technology and globalization. "We're living through one of the greatest disruptions in history," says Professor David Wilkins of Harvard Law School. "The legal profession is never going to be the same." 
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Event | 10.27.09 - 10.28.09, 12:00 AM UTC - 12:00 AM UTC

American Lawyer - Law Firm Management Forum

The Law Firm Management Forum will take an in-depth look at the law firm model and discuss trends and predictions for the future. From recruitment and staffing to compensation and billing rates, now is the time to take a fresh look at how you run your law firm. Strategic planning will be necessary at all levels of the firm, not just in the management committee.
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Webinars 4 results

Webinar | 04.21.20, 8:00 AM EDT - 9:00 AM EDT

Re-opening Your Business During A Pandemic – A Morass of Legal and Practical Issues To Consider

Please join us for a webinar that will discuss the key business and legal issues that companies will have to navigate as they plan to re-open their businesses in the months ahead. We will discuss lessons learned from the re-opening efforts currently underway in Asia, potential legal and practical challenges associated with wide scale testing, contact tracing, PPE distribution, and other measures intended to thwart a second wave of the virus. We will also highlight varied approaches across industries and preview the anticipated evolution of state laws and ordinances following the federal government’s issuance of “Opening Up America Again” Guidelines.  
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Webinar | 04.03.20, 11:00 AM EDT - 12:00 PM EDT

What if Your Business Is Essential, But Your Employees Are Afraid to Report to Work?

As COVID-19 infections continue to mount, reports of employees becoming increasingly concerned about having to report to worksites across the country in service of essential businesses are escalating. Anxious employees are refusing to come to work, and in some cases, have already lodged formal complaints in court and with relevant agencies, notwithstanding the myriad efforts undertaken by their employers both to adhere to CDC guidance and implement wide ranging safety measures. 
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Webinar | 06.13.19, 8:00 AM EDT - 9:00 AM EDT

Time's Up for Medicine: #MeToo Targets the Health Care Industry

Time’s Up – the non-profit seeking to eradicate sexual harassment and foster fairness and inclusivity in workplaces across the nation – took aim at the health care industry on March 1, 2019. With women comprising 65 percent of health care workers, and nearly 50 percent of female medical students reporting being sexually harassed during medical school, the health care industry is rife with potential claimants and risk.
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Speaking Engagements 10 results