As Skadden Arps Lays Off Professional Staff While Boosting Attorney Pay, Citizens for a Pro-Business Delaware Slams the Firm for Inequitable Treatment of Employees

WILMINGTON, Del.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, following news that the law firm of Skadden Arps has laid off 4% of its professional staff across the country, a group disproportionately made up of people of color, while continuing to boost salaries and bonuses for attorneys, Citizens for a Pro-Business Delaware campaign manager Chris Coffey released the following statement:

“Once again, Skadden Arps is demonstrating their callous disregard for the well-being of their BIPOC employees, choosing to reduce their already appallingly low levels of diversity rather than rolling back partner salaries or bonuses. In the middle of a public health and economic crisis, Skadden is showing their true colors by firing the employees who can least afford it.”