Vedder Price - 1792 Exchange

Corporate Bias Rating

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Medium Risk

Summary:

Vedder Price often yields to political activism in shaping corporate governance, potentially alienating consumers, dividing employees, and harming shareholders. The company implements race and identity-based policies that replace merit, excellence, and integrity with preferential treatment and outcomes. Vedder Price occasionally embraces corporate initiatives that redirect its central focus from business goals to partisan policies and divisive issues at times. This approach fails to safeguard free exercise, free speech, and free enterprise.

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Corporate Weaponization

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Has canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors due to their political views or religious beliefs OR corporately boycotts, divests, or sanctions regions, people groups, or industries.

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Vedder Price has not publicly canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors based on political views or religious beliefs (1).

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Charitable giving (including employee matching programs) policies or practices discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or religious beliefs.

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Vedder Price does not appear to discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or beliefs (1)(2).

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Employment policies fail to protect against viewpoint or other discrimination and/or are ideological in nature.

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Vedder Price is Mansfield Certified, indicating its support of DEI in its recruitment, hiring, promotions, and leadership composition (1)(2). Vedder Price does not provide viewpoint protections for its employees (3).

Corporate Governance and Public Policy

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Uses corporate reputation to support causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

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Vedder Price supports DEI within its business practices, stating that DEI “is one of our core values and is integral to the way we run our firm” (1).

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Uses corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

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Vedder Price donated to the Anti-Defamation League (1). Vedder Price sponsored the UK Lesbian and Gay Immigration Group (2). Otherwise, there are no publicly known cases of Vedder Price using corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies (3).

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Uses corporate political actions and/or financial contributions for ideological, non-business purposes.

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Vedder Price is a part of the Law Firm Antiracism Alliance, committed to work on initiatives that fight “systemic racism” (1)(2). Vedder Price does not operate a PAC or report on its lobbying at this time (3)(4)(5).

Board Bias

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1792 Exchange has not yet compiled data about the board of directors or political contributions of leadership for this company.