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DirectEmployers Association

DE Talk | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: Progress Amidst Opposition within Corporate, Political, & Social Spheres

2024 has brought forth many challenges for diversity and inclusion efforts, and at DirectEmployers’ recent Annual Meeting & Conference, we addressed those setbacks and emphasized the importance of progress amidst opposition....more

A&O Shearman

Achieving gender parity in the UKs top companies a mixed picture

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The Government-backed FTSE Women Leaders Review has been released for the third year, with the results showing promising progression in the appointment of women to boards (with the 40% target for women on boards achieved in...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Fifth Circuit Will Reconsider Challenges to Nasdaq Board Diversity Rule

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit agreed recently to revisit a challenge to Nasdaq's board diversity rule. As we previously reported, a three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit upheld the rule in October 2023....more

BCLP

UK Corporate Briefing - March 2024

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Welcome to the Corporate Briefing, where we review the latest developments in UK corporate law that you need to know about. In this month’s issue, we discuss...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Project W: The Invisible Struggle for Black Women

Protect Black women. Believe Black women. Do better for Black women. That is the call to action from Tiffani Lambie, Director, DEI Operations at Davis Wright Tremaine. Tiffani shares her experience as Black woman in the...more

Fenwick & West LLP

Corporate Governance Practices and Trends in Silicon Valley and at Large Companies Nationwide

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For two decades, Fenwick has reported on corporate governance statistics and trends among the S&P 100 and Silicon Valley’s top public companies (Fenwick – Bloomberg Law Silicon Valley 150 List), with the goal of educating...more

Stikeman Elliott LLP

Board Composition: Gender Diversity and Beyond

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The Canadian Securities Administrators (“CSA”) have released their annual review of disclosure regarding women on boards and in executive officer positions at Toronto Stock Exchange-listed issuers, showing positive trends in...more

White & Case LLP

Diversity on UK Boards

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Increased focus from investors, regulators, and employees on racial, ethnic and gender diversity has heightened scrutiny of public companies' commitments to diversity in their workforce and in particular on their boards. ...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Republican AGs Set Sights on Corporate DEI After Affirmative Action Decision

Last week, 13 Republican state attorneys general published a letter to the largest companies in the country, creating confusion, uncertainty and risk for businesses that have sought to adopt diversity, equity and inclusion...more

Allen Matkins

Are All Lawsuits Against "Woke" Directors "Nonstarters"?

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In a recent post, UCLA Professor Stephen Bainbridge concludes: "And the law is that suits claiming woke directors breached their fiduciary duties by their decisions about how the corporation behaves in the political arena are...more

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Federal Court Rules California Board Quota Law Unconstitutional

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A little over a year ago, I wrote that California Superior Court Judge Terry Green had found that AB 979 facially violates the Equal Protection Clause of the California Constitution,  Cal. Const. Art. I, § 7.  Crest v....more

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Gender Diversity in the Boardroom – Where are We Now in Hong Kong and APAC?

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Introduction - Diversity & inclusion remains a priority for many businesses, even during these challenging times. A large part of recent conversation concerns encouraging greater female representation on corporate boards...more

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Women in the Workplace: What’s changed (and changing) in the UK and Europe

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Recent evidence suggests that progress towards gender parity has slowed and that the gender gap has in fact widened since the pandemic. This article highlights some key legal developments in the UK and Europe that are...more

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New Targets to increase Ethnic Diversity on UK Boards, etc.

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On 13 March 2023, the UK's Parker Review on Ethnic Diversity on UK Boards (the “Review”) published an update report (the "2023 Update") detailing recent progress that has been made in addressing the disparity between levels...more

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Women Coming on Board in the UK

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On 28 February, 2023 the FTSE Women Leaders Review (the "Review") published its second report (the "2022 Report") on progress in the UK towards meeting its December 2025 target of FTSE 350 companies having at least 40% female...more

Jenner & Block

Client Alert: Women on Boards Directive – A Crack in the Glass Ceiling, but Does It Go Far Enough?

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Women make up just 30.6% of board directors for the largest listed companies in the European Union (EU). In a bid to “break the glass ceiling of listed companies’ boards,” the European Parliament adopted a new law on 22...more

World Law Group

The S in ESG - What is it and how can it create value?

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WLG's Compliance & Investigations Group hosted a public webinar to discuss the S in ESG and its relation to compliance. The webinar features speakers Paulina Madero of Transforma; Viktoria Khaitina and Liang Shen of The World...more

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[Webinar] The S in ESG - What is it and how can it create value? - September 22nd, 9:00 am - 10:00 am EDT

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Business is changing, and we have to put people at the center of it. Next in our ESG compliance webinar series, we're diving into the S (social) issues - from supply chain due diligence to gender equality and everything in...more

Perkins Coie

California Court Overturns Board Gender Diversity Statute

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A Los Angeles Superior Court judge struck down California’s board gender diversity statute on May 13, 2022. The court found that Senate Bill 826 violated the California Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause....more

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Vertragsgestaltung im Arbeitsrecht – Festlegung von Zielgrößen zum Frauenanteil und Fristen zu deren Erreichung nach dem...

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Das am 1. Mai 2015 in Kraft getretene Teilhabegesetz verpflichtet Gesellschaften, die börsennotiert sind oder der Mitbestimmung unterliegen sowie Gesellschaften, die börsennotiert und mitbestimmt sind, zur Festlegung von...more

Fenwick & West LLP

Meeting Expectations for Board Diversity

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Corporate boardroom diversity has increased significantly over the last few years, and the interest in and demand for gender and racial/ethnic diversity on boards of directors remain high. Lack of corporate board diversity...more

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California Superior Court Strikes Down Director Diversity Mandate

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On May 13, 2022, Judge Maureen Duffy Lewis of the Superior Court of the State of California for Los Angeles County entered judgement in favor of three taxpayers bringing state constitutional challenges to S.B. 826, a bill for...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Los Angeles Superior Court Invalidates California Law Requiring Gender Diversity on Company Boards

In Crest v. Padilla, No. 19STCV27561, 2022 WL 1565613 (Cal. Super. May 13, 2022), the Superior Court of California for the County of Los Angeles (Duffy-Lewis, J.) issued a decision following a bench trial finding that Senate...more

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California Court Strikes Down Law on Board Diversity

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On Friday, May 13, a California Superior Court judge struck down Senate Bill (“SB”) 826—California’s landmark gender diversity law regarding the representation of women directors on the boards of publicly held corporations...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

California Trial Court Strikes Down Women on Boards Law

On May 13, 2022, a judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court ruled in Crest v. Padilla, Case No. 19STCV27561, that California’s statute requiring California-based public companies to have one to three women on their...more

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