PROFESSOR MICHAEL FOREMAN COMMENTS ON GOODWIN PROCTER EEOC PROBE
June 2025 — Michael Foreman, clinical professor of law and director of the Civil Rights Appellate Clinic, recently commented to Law360 on the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s March inquiry into the diversity programs of Goodwin Procter LLP. The EEOC has expressed concern that firms are providing employment opportunities based on identity rather than merit. Goodwin Procter submitted a 238-page document regarding its diversity, equity, and inclusion programs.
“Anybody could easily access this information and then back into very personal information," said Foreman. “It is clearly an extremely dangerous proposition to allow the EEOC under no cover of law to demand this information without a pending charge, putting people’s personal data at risk with no legal protections.”
The EEOC set up a process and Congress set up a process to protect against this very thing, and then the chairperson of the EEOC is basically ignoring the whole process.” Read the full article here.
Professor Michael Foreman focuses on appellate representation in civil rights issues and employment discrimination cases and directs Penn State Dickinson Law’s Civil Rights Appellate Clinic, which has served as counsel of record on numerous cases in United States Supreme Court and the federal appellate courts.