Editorial: GOP Sen. Tom Cotton overreaches in sending a warning to big law firms about DEI efforts
Typically, big law firms specialize in sending threatening letters. But given how the U.S. Supreme Court upended a string of precedents in its recent term, perhaps it should come as no surprise that law firms these days are receiving them.
In letters to 51 major law firms earlier this month, U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton warned that they and their clients who maintain diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives are courting trouble.
Cotton, a Republican from Arkansas, informed some of the world’s highest-powered lawyers at U.S. colleges and universities — just in case they missed that much-publicized decision. The ever-helpful Cotton, who has little experience in private practice despite graduating from Harvard Law School, further advised the firms about how they should manage their clients in the aftermath of the June ruling.
