As Big Law continues to make strides in diversity and inclusion efforts, diversity leaders remain confident that the industry will maintain its forward momentum. But the likely end of race-conscious affirmative action in college admissions at the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court this summer presents a genuine threat to law firms' efforts to make their attorney rosters mirror the U.S. population.

To find out how law firm diversity professionals interpret the past couple years of growth while planning for the potential end of affirmative action in law school admissions, we asked a handful of DEI leaders at firms that ranked in the top 100 of the 2023 Diversity Scorecard those very questions.