State Bar of Wisconsin Redefines ‘Diversity’ To Settle Discrimination Lawsuit
“We are pleased to have reached an amicable agreement that resolves the outstanding litigation”
The left’s obsession with race keeps getting them into trouble.
Reuters reports:
Wisconsin Bar redefines ‘diversity’ to settle discrimination lawsuit
The State Bar of Wisconsin has modified its definition of “diversity” for applicants to its leadership programs, ending a two-year-old lawsuit brought by a conservative legal group alleging the programs discriminate based on race.
The change, announced by the state bar on Wednesday, comes more than a year after the organization made similar modifications to a diversity program for law students following a partial settlement in the same lawsuit.
The latest settlement, disclosed in a joint court filing on Tuesday by the state bar and the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, requires the Wisconsin bar to make clear in promotional and application materials that its leadership and law student diversity clerkship programs are open to all law students and state bar members.
Those changes will allow the G. Lane Ware Leadership Academy and Leadership Summit to “continue unencumbered,” the state bar said. The Ware Leadership Academy is a leadership development course over three two-day sessions annually for “a diverse and inclusive group of lawyers.” The Leadership Summit is an annual luncheon for 24 young lawyers who “possess the potential to be the next generation of state bar leaders.”
“We are pleased to have reached an amicable agreement that resolves the outstanding litigation,” said Ryan Billings, the Wisconsin Bar’s immediate past president, in a statement.
Dan Lennington, deputy counsel at the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, said Thursday that the state bar “was caught red-handed using race to discriminate against applicants for its programs,” and that diversity and inclusion “is over at the state bar.”
“We will continue to monitor them, and if they backslide, we will sue them again,” Lennington said.
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