Edward Blum, the conservative legal activist who this year helped dismantle affirmative action in college admissions and prompted law firms to open diversity fellowships to all applicants, may not be done suing law firms after all.

After Blum dropped a recent lawsuit against Winston & Strawn, Bloomberg Law reported Blum said he was done suing law firms. Blum meant he was done for now. “If we learn of a law firm that has a policy similar to the ones we sued and they have not changed it, and a plaintiff wants to apply for that position who is disqualified because of their race, we will file a lawsuit against that law firm,” Blum said in a recent interview with The American Lawyer.

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