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Witnesses Urge EEOC To Retain Or Overhaul EEO-1 Reporting Rules At Public Hearing
1+ week, 3+ day ago (382+ words) The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission held a public hearing on August 11, 2026, examining its proposal to rescind long-standing EEO-1 workforce reporting requirements. Twenty-two witnesses appeared before the Commission, with the majority urging the agency to retain or modernise the reporting framework…...
New National Task Force Takes Independent Look At US Legal Education, Sidelining ABA Accreditor
1+ week, 6+ day ago (339+ words) The Association of American Law Schools has launched a major new body to scrutinise the regulation and quality of legal education across the United States. The National Task Force on the Regulation of American Legal Education will bring together judges,…...
Biglaw Associate Classes Shrink As Law Schools Face Financial Crisis And Legal Drama Mounts
2+ week, 5+ day ago (352+ words) Biglaw remains one of the largest single employers of new law school graduates, but associate class sizes are getting noticeably smaller across the industry. The trend raises serious questions about the long-term pipeline of talent entering large commercial law firms…...
Washington Law Deans Demand Diploma Privilege After Bar Exam Technology Collapse Leaves 600 Stranded
3+ week, 4+ day ago (495+ words) Three Washington law school deans are pressing the state Supreme Court to grant diploma privilege after a catastrophic bar exam failure left hundreds of graduates without a path forward. The July bar exam administration collapsed at a Yakima convention center…...
UK Government Launches Pay Equity Consultation To Strengthen Protections For Ethnic And Disabled Workers
4+ week, 2+ day ago (444+ words) The UK government has published a fifteen-week consultation seeking public input on how equal pay laws can better protect ethnic and disabled workers while boosting pay transparency. The consultation is being led by the Office for Equality and Opportunity and…...
Proposed FAR Overhaul Slashes Contractor Deadlines For Termination Settlement Submissions To 90 Days
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (423+ words) The Federal Acquisition Regulation faces its most significant overhaul in years, with new proposed rules that would dramatically compress deadlines for government contractors handling terminated contracts. The Revolutionary FAR Overhaul, known as RFO, includes a proposed rule under FAR Case…...
Yale Law School Pushes Back On University's Trump Deal, While Courts Battle Over Free Speech And Immigration
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (350+ words) Yale Law School is working behind the scenes to persuade Yale University to abandon negotiations with the Trump administration, citing serious concerns about threats to the rule of law. Latham and Watkins is capitalising on surging legal demand driven by…...
EEOC Regulatory Agenda Puts Employers On Notice With Ten Planned Actions
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (565+ words) The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has released its plans for revising, rescinding, and enacting regulations over the coming year, and the list is significant. The agency identified ten actions it intends to pursue, including proposals to rescind the Uniform Guidelines…...
EEOC Scraps Decades-Old Affirmative Action Guidelines, Leaving Employers To Navigate New Legal Terrain
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (408+ words) On 30 June 2026, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced it had rescinded two longstanding policy documents governing voluntary affirmative action under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The rescinded documents include the interpretive guidelines titled “Affirmative Action Appropriate Under…...