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President Trump Signs Executive Order Regarding Disparate-Impact Liability

By Nikki Lewis Simon, Naomi G. Beer & Mikaela Shaw Masoudpour on April 30, 2025
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On April 23, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order entitled “Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy.” The order aims to “eliminate the use of disparate-impact liability in all contexts to the maximum degree possible.”

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Photo of Nikki Lewis Simon Nikki Lewis Simon

Nikki Lewis Simon, a commercial litigator with more than two decades of experience, primarily serves as Senior Vice President and the firm’s Chief Engagement, Culture, and Opportunity Officer. In this capacity, Nikki designs and guides strategic initiatives and programs to deepen firmwide inclusion…

Nikki Lewis Simon, a commercial litigator with more than two decades of experience, primarily serves as Senior Vice President and the firm’s Chief Engagement, Culture, and Opportunity Officer. In this capacity, Nikki designs and guides strategic initiatives and programs to deepen firmwide inclusion efforts that further enrich client engagements and community investments.

Her role is indicative of, and integral to, Greenberg Traurig’s core values of collaboration and inclusion – principles that inform the firm’s operations and legal business in meaningful, positive ways.

Prior to assuming primary responsibilities on the business side of the firm, Nikki has represented her cross-industry clients’ business objectives by protecting their capital – human, intellectual, and financial – against claims of wrongdoing in complex commercial and class action litigation. Those matters have spanned the panoply of issues and claims businesses often face, from discrimination to wrongful death, defamation to fraud and misrepresentation, professional negligence and malpractice to breach of fiduciary duty and securities law violations.

Given her experience, Nikki is also an active member of Greenberg Traurig’s Labor & Employment Practice’s team of lawyers who concentrate in strategic employment counseling. The team provides pragmatic employment legal advice- both nationwide and jurisdiction specific— that address the client’s risk tolerance, cultural realities, operational bandwidth, and budget. Together, the team and client design and implement employment compliance programs as well as strategic advice and planning that help foster positive employee relations that also strengthen innovative operating guides and job-aides; industry tailored dynamic trainings to virtually every organizational level; employment compliance audits and employee engagement sessions.

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Photo of Naomi G. Beer Naomi G. Beer

Naomi G. Beer is Co-Chair of the firm’s Global Labor & Employment Practice and Co-Chair of the Labor & Employment Practice’s Collective & Systemic Employment Litigation group. She is an experienced litigator who focuses her practice on managing complex engagements. Naomi has over…

Naomi G. Beer is Co-Chair of the firm’s Global Labor & Employment Practice and Co-Chair of the Labor & Employment Practice’s Collective & Systemic Employment Litigation group. She is an experienced litigator who focuses her practice on managing complex engagements. Naomi has over 25 years of experience advising clients on all aspects of complex, class action and multi-district litigation and has served as national counsel for clients faced with related proceedings in multiple jurisdictions and forums. Naomi also frequently counsels clients faced with complex problems with a focus on risk mitigation and resolving issues. Naomi works with public and privately held clients involved in the retail, restaurant, energy and manufacturing industries. Naomi has been listed by Human Resource Executive magazine as one of “The Nation’s Most Powerful Employment Lawyers – Top 100.”

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Photo of Mikaela Shaw Masoudpour Mikaela Shaw Masoudpour

Mikaela Shaw Masoudpour is trusted advisor to employers on a broad range of high-profile employment matters. Executive leadership and boards frequently call on Mikaela to investigate workplace misconduct claims and advise on remediation measures. Mikaela is sought out for outcome-oriented counseling to address…

Mikaela Shaw Masoudpour is trusted advisor to employers on a broad range of high-profile employment matters. Executive leadership and boards frequently call on Mikaela to investigate workplace misconduct claims and advise on remediation measures. Mikaela is sought out for outcome-oriented counseling to address pressing workplace needs from the pre-employment stage through separation of employment, including implementing AI tools in the workplace, leaves and accommodations, performance management, remote work, restrictive covenants, wage and hour, workplace policies, and labor relations. Mikaela also focuses on pay equity matters, such as advising clients on equal pay and pay transparency laws and conducting proactive audits and compensation analyses.

When litigation does occur, Mikaela regularly represents clients in courts and before administrative agencies in individual and class claims under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Family and Medical Leave Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Equal Pay Act, federal labor laws, and other employment statutes. She leverages her deep courtroom experience to assist employers with litigation prevention and crisis management.

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