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From Stonewall to Supreme Court: The Legal Evolution of LGBTQ+ Rights and Our Professional Duty to Safeguard Them This Pride Month
JUNE 16, 2025 The LGBTQ+ rights movement in the United States has never followed a linear path. It is a saga of unprecedented courage and resistance in the face of systemic erasure, criminalization, and brutal violence. Once a band of guerrilla revolutionaries has now...
Five Essential Elements of Legally Compliant Workplace Investigations: Strengthening Your DEI Framework
JUNE 02, 2025 Today, DEI is not simply a catchy buzzword, it is a business driver. In a recent statement to MarketWatch, Sarah Kate Ellis, president and CEO of LGBTQ advocacy group GLAAD, addressed the reaction to Target downgrading its DEI strategy: “With the LGBTQ...
Trump’s Executive Orders on DEI: Impact and Guidance for Employers
MAY 22, 2025 As legal counsel committed to helping businesses navigate complex regulatory changes, I am providing this analysis of President Trump's executive orders targeting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs. Key Executive Orders Affecting DEI in the...
When Free Speech Meets Deportation: The Right to Free Speech of Non-Citizens in the United States
MAY 08, 2025 The Trump administration has launched an unprecedented campaign targeting international students and faculty who have voiced support for Palestinian causes, with at least eight documented arrests and over 300 visa revocations across major...
A Reason for Hope: How Just 3.5 Percent of People Can Change the World
April 26, 2025 As an attorney, I think I speak for many of my colleagues when I write that we often focus on change through the courts and legislation. However, history teaches us that the most profound societal shifts often begin with ordinary citizens taking...
Recent Impeachment Efforts of a Sitting Federal Judge Signal Judicial Independence Is Under Threat
FEB 24, 2025 The recent impeachment efforts of a sitting federal judge by the Trump administration and their Republican cohorts parallel one of history’s darkest chapters and the early stages of how Nazi Germany dismantled its justice system. Federal Judge Paul...
Bar Associations as Historical Champions of Civil Rights: A Legacy of Leadership
FEB 01, 2025 In light of a recent executive order from the Trump administration that specifically calls for federal agencies to identify "up to nine entities for possible civil compliance investigations, including large nonprofits and state and local bar...
Trump Orders Federal Workers Back to the Office
JAN 24, 2025 President Trump has signed an executive order requiring federal employees to return to in-person work at their duty stations on a full-time basis. The order directs all department and agency heads to terminate remote work arrangements as soon as...