Camille Olson, a partner with Seyfarth Shaw and a board member of America’s Newspapers, has shared two new EEO resources with members.
The Conference Board recently published “Workplace Diversity, Equity & Inclusion 2026: A C-Suite Guide to the Legal Landscape,” which Olson co-authored with Allan Schweyer of TCB’s Human Capital Center. The piece maps the current multiagency enforcement environment in practical terms, covering the DOJ’s Civil Rights Fraud Initiative and its False Claims Act exposure for federal contractors, the EEOC’s restored quorum and its sharpened focus on intentional discrimination (including recent subpoena enforcement action against a major retailer), and the FTC’s January letters to 42 law firms signaling antitrust scrutiny of coordinated DEI benchmarking programs like Mansfield Certification.
The C-Suite guidance in the piece is designed to help organizations shift from program-level thinking to systems-level governance, with specific focus on how employment decisions are made, documented, and aligned with public compliance representations. Download this guide here.
Second, Seyfarth’s Complex Discrimination Litigation Group has published “EEOC-Initiated Litigation: 2026 Edition,” its annual desk reference analyzing EEOC case filings and decisions from the past year and forecasting enforcement trends for the year ahead. This edition addresses what the authors describe as the most dramatic changes they have observed in years of tracking the EEOC, including the removal of two commissioners, the restoration of quorum with Brittany Panuccio’s confirmation, the agency’s withdrawal from gender identity-based litigation, its pivot toward national origin enforcement protecting American workers, and Chair Lucas’ widely-viewed outreach to white male employees.
The report is a comprehensive resource for in-house counsel and HR leadership managing charge risk, systemic investigation exposure, and litigation preparedness in this environment. A PDF of the desk reference is available here.
