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We’re involved in regards to the efforts that the Trump administration has taken to disparage and dismantle DEI efforts which are lawful and which are designed to open doorways of alternative and provides extra folks the possibility to succeed primarily based on their deserves. Now greater than ever, we maintain steadfast to our values and our conviction that increasing alternatives and entry inside the authorized occupation will all the time be the precise factor to do.
We have now not modified our standards or choice course of in response to both the SFFA v. Harvard opinion or to the Trump administration’s actions, and we see no cause to. Our Range Scholarship program is lawful, anti-discriminatory, and aligned with our core values {and professional} ethics. We’re happy with how this system has positively impacted the authorized occupation through the years.
— Laurie Carr Mims, managing companion of Keker Van Nest & Peters, in feedback given to The Recorder, in regards to the agency’s range scholarship, which awards a complete of $100,000 in funds to first-year legislation college students every year. This 12 months’s Keker range students have been chosen as they “every demonstrated a deep dedication to service and advocacy, a ardour for litigation that began nicely earlier than legislation college, and since they embodied resilience, grit and willpower.”
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