ABA Softens DEI Clerk Language After Conservative Challenge (1)

The American Bar Association has loosened its diversity, equity and inclusion requirements in a clerkship program, according to a non-profit group that accused the organization of recruitment bias.

ABA now encourages participating schools to select diverse students by promoting equal participation and eliminating bias, according to the group, the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty. ABA previously required schools choose four to six students from underrepresented communities of color and asked judges to hire at least two minority clerks over five years.

“In reviewing the program materials, some language was removed that did not accurately reflect the operation of the ...