{"id":5731,"date":"2025-05-10T07:46:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T07:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/aba-council-extends-suspension-of-dei-standard-until-2026\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T07:46:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T07:46:03","slug":"aba-council-extends-suspension-of-dei-standard-until-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/aba-council-extends-suspension-of-dei-standard-until-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"ABA Council Extends Suspension of DEI Standard Until 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<p>The American Bar Association voted Friday to extend the suspension of the enforcement of Standard 206, which had required schools to commit to diversity and inclusion, until Aug. 31, 2026.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<p>The vote comes after the Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar voted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/2025\/02\/24\/aba-suspends-dei-mandate-for-law-school-accreditation\/\" target=\"_blank\" link-data=\"{\" cms.site.owner=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">in February<\/a> to suspend Standard 206 through the end of August 2025, due to the Trump administration&#8217;s efforts targeting diversity, equity and inclusion programs, including the U.S. Department of Education\u2019s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/2025\/02\/20\/despite-breakneck-changes-to-dei-on-campus-counsel-for-schools-shouldnt-feel-rushed-lawyers-advise\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dear Colleague<\/a>&#8221; letter, which declared DEI programs illegal and gave schools two weeks to bring their programs into compliance or face the loss of federal funding.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Bar Association voted Friday to extend the suspension of the enforcement of Standard 206, which had required schools to commit to diversity and inclusion, until Aug. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[149,5875,134,5876,3655,1391],"class_list":["post-5731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-aba","tag-council","tag-dei","tag-extends","tag-standard","tag-suspension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}