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O’Melveny’s 2026 CLE Marathon: An ‘Individualized Showing’ of Social or Economic Disadvantage: Business Diversity Programs After Legal and Enforcement Developments Regarding Race- and Sex-Based Presumption

O’Melveny’s 2026 CLE Marathon: An ‘Individualized Showing’ of Social or Economic Disadvantage: Business Diversity Programs After Legal and Enforcement Developments Regarding Race- and Sex-Based Presumption

February 26, 2026

This webinar is part of O’Melveny’s 2026 CLE Marathon, a series that offers licensed attorneys with a wide range of specialty CLE credits covering legal ethics, elimination of bias, technology, competence, and civility in the law. The topics covered in these sessions are very timely for today’s rapidly evolving legal landscape and include AI, FCA, business diversity programs, and internal investigations.

To register for this or any other session in the series, please follow the registration links below.

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An 'Individualized Showing' of Social or Economic Disadvantage: Business Diversity Programs After Legal/Enforcement Developments Regarding Race- and Sex-Based Presumptions

Presenters: Tristan Morales, Partner; Marni Robinow, Counsel

Thursday, February 26, 2026
10:00 - 11:00 am PT / 12:00 - 1:00 pm CT / 1:00 - 2:00 pm ET

A series of court decisions and regulatory changes from federal agencies (e.g., the Small Business Administration and Department of Transportation) regarding supplier diversity programs have required eliminating race- and sex-based presumptions of social or economic disadvantage. This panel will discuss the shift to an “individualized showing” of disadvantage, in the business contracting context and more broadly across the diversity policy landscape.

Eligible for 1 hour of CLE as follows – CA: Recognition & Elimination of Bias; TX: General; NY: Diversity, Inclusion, Elimination of Bias; IL: Diversity/Inclusion

REGISTER HERE