By EMMA GOLDBERG NYTimes News Service
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More than 200 diversity officers, some from Fortune 500 companies and some from nonprofits, gathered last summer at the New York University School of Law and on video to talk about the future of their diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, programs, which had become a legal and social target. Anxiously, they wondered how to protect themselves. Did they need to rethink internship programs for underrepresented workers, or drop certain diversity language from their websites?