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Civil-rights lawyer Cyrus Mehri says there is a moral, business and democracy case for diversity and inclusion.
Olivia Alonso Gough for The Wall Street Journal
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How to Expand Diversity in the Workplace
Civil-rights lawyer Cyrus Mehri headed up some of the biggest race-discrimination class actions of the early aughts. Now, he has ideas on how to make companies more equitable.
Civil-rights lawyer Cyrus Mehri says there is a moral, business and democracy case for diversity and inclusion.
Olivia Alonso Gough for The Wall Street Journal
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Civil-rights lawyer Cyrus Mehri has fought some of the most significant workplace race-discrimination lawsuits in U.S. history, winning a $176 million settlement with Texaco in 1996 and a $192.5 million settlement with Coca-Cola Co. in 2000. More important than the monetary relief for his clients, he says, are the structural adjustments he insists on in settlements: extensive changes to companies’ internal human-resources processes, designed to fix the systems that allow racial barriers to persist.