Many law firms are engaging in “woke lawfare,” using courtroom settlements to force diversity bureaucracies and racial hiring quotas on American companies, according to a conservative free-market advocacy group. “And every settlement put money into the hands of trial lawyers, who used this to roll out more lawsuits.” Alliance for Consumers: DEI Lawfare in America Report by Thomas Phippen DCNFIn Ellis, et al. The method of weaponizing labor lawsuit settlements to enforce racial hiring benchmarks has been ongoing for decades, according to Alliance for Consumers. Alliance for Consumers is urging lawmakers and state attorneys general to recognize the “weaponization” of courtrooms to “pursue ideological transformation through the courts.”