July 11, 2025
A trio of top congressional Democrats asked the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's acting head to provide details about her efforts to obtain information from major law firms about their diversity, equity and inclusion practices. Meanwhile, IBM Corp. resolved a suit by a white male former consultant who alleged he was pushed out due to workforce diversity quotas. Here, Law360 looks at notable DEI-related legal developments from the past week.
July 07, 2025
IBM has agreed to resolve a white male ex-consultant's bias claims that he was fired so that the company could hire women and people of color to fulfill workforce diversity quotas, according to a filing in Michigan federal court Monday.
March 26, 2025
A Michigan federal judge on Wednesday refused to throw out a white male consultant's suit alleging that IBM threatens to punish executives if they don't meet diversity goals, finding that, at least at this stage in the litigation, he's offered enough facts to support a "reverse discrimination" claim.
November 21, 2024
IBM rewarded executives for meeting diversity goals and threatened them with punishment for failing to do so, essentially telling them to "discriminate or lose your job," a white male consultant who was terminated alleged in a suit filed in Michigan federal court on Wednesday.
October 24, 2024
IBM disputed a white former consultant's claim that the company fired him to fulfill diversity targets in a court filing Wednesday, saying the worker's allegations that the company has racial and gender-based hiring quotas are unsupported.
August 21, 2024
IBM financially incentivizes and pressures corporate leadership to hire people based on their race and gender, according to a new suit filed in Michigan federal court by a former IBM employee who claims he was unlawfully fired for being a "double whammy" white male.