The association has been supporting Black lawyers and judges in the Indianapolis area since 1925.
Read More
The topics of the inquiries range from grant funding to tariffs to immigration to diversity, equity and inclusion.
Read More
Discussions around improving diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace have unfolded throughout the United States for decades, dating back to the 1960s with the establishment of equal employment laws and affirmative action.
Read More
The National Association for Law Placement released its annual Report on Diversity in U.S. Law Firms in January, with the report showing women now constitute the majority of all law associates for the first time since NALP began gathering data in the early 1990s.
Read More
This year has brought new challenges amid an uncertain political climate, with President Donald Trump and the U.S. Department of Education taking aim at axing diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
Starting Oct. 24, the new policy will allow Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita to block a state agency’s request for outside counsel if the law firm engages in “unconstitutional” diversity, equity and inclusion practices.
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita announced his support Tuesday of the Indiana Department of Transportation’s request for a waiver from the requirements of the federal Disadvantaged Business Enterprise program.
Gov. Mike Braun’s administration sought an advisory opinion Aug. 26 from the Attorney General’s Office on the legality of the Governor’s Commission on Supplier Diversity and the continued implementation of the Minority and Women’s Business Enterprises Program.
Hoosiers have poured almost $200 million into scholarships, medical research, child welfare and more in less than two decades — just by buying specialty license plates for their vehicles.
The Indiana attorney general, in coordination with Gov. Mike Braun’s administration, is reviewing all state contracts to ensure that they do not violate the state’s anti-DEI laws.
The diversity practices at three private colleges are under the microscope of Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita as he looks for any violations of new policies and laws against diversity, equity and inclusion.
A federal judge on Thursday struck down two Trump administration actions aimed at eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion programs at the nation’s schools and universities.
Attorney General Todd Rokita has issued new civil investigative demands to the University of Notre Dame and Butler University, seeking more information on the universities’ DEI practices after Rokita said the schools failed to provide the materials requested by the office in May.
The ACLU argues the law is a clear violation of the free speech protections of the First Amendment and the guarantee of due process in the Fourteenth Amendment.
A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the ACLU on behalf of several Indiana professors over the state’s intellectual diversity law, claiming the case lacks jurisdiction.
The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to allow it to cut hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of research funding in its push to roll back federal diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.
For years, the establishment has created a judicial selection system that appears to reward patronage and effectively excludes conservative minorities.
The program, which is funded by the U.S. government but administered by states, earmarks at least 10 percent of the federal funding for transportation infrastructure to women- and minority-owned contracting firms.
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita has launched an inquiry into the University of Notre Dame’s diversity, equity and inclusion policies.
Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith’s defense of the Three-Fifths Compromise — which he called “a great move” by the country’s founders toward ending slavery — has triggered sharp pushback from historians and civil rights groups.
The ruling came in a lawsuit brought by the National Education Association and the American Civil Liberties Union.
Criticisms continued to mount Monday even after a sweeping committee amendment rolled back significant portions of a bill that seeks to limit diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in schools and state government.
Whether out of fear of losing federal funding, a desire to avoid litigation or a reluctance to seem political, organizations are changing the way they talk about diversity—if not outright cutting back on their pro-diversity efforts.
The plaintiffs, Mid-America Milling Co. of Jeffersonville and Bagshaw Trucking Inc. of Memphis, claim in their suit that the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise program has resulted in reverse discrimination against them.