EXCLUSIVE: Trial Lawyers Quietly Using Woke Lawfare To Hamper American Businesses

July 29, 2026 12:49 PM ET Many law firms are engaging in “woke lawfare,” using courtroom settlements to force diversity bureaucracies and racial hiring quotas on American companies, according to a conservative free-market advocacy group. Multiple legal settlements over the past decade have forced corporations to enact gender and diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI) policies that harm shareholder value and ultimately hurt consumers, according to a report from Alliance for Consumers, first obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The legal settlements may have bolstered the spread of DEI policies across corporate America.“These settlements were a serious driver of DEI policies, as they pushed vast sums of money into the DEI machine and empowered or imported DEI activists inside compa