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When does DEI training discriminate against white people? Courts will decide

DEI training is coming under special scrutiny, with at least seven court cases pending nationwide alleging that it constitutes workplace discrimination.

Aug 12, 2024 10:35 AM CDT

Nondisparagement and nondisclosure agreements can let harassment fester, ABA warns

The ABA is calling for an end to nondisclosure and nondisparagement agreements in employment contracts that “limit an employee’s ability to disclose information underlying claims of workplace harassment, discrimination or statutory workplace rights violations.”

Aug 5, 2024 4:15 PM CDT

Duane Morris bestows partner title on powerless attorneys to shift tax and business costs, suit alleges

Duane Morris reduces business expenses and tax obligations for equity partners by shifting some of the burdens to lawyers who carry the partner title but have no equity or power in the law firm, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday.

Aug 1, 2024 10:55 AM CDT

Judiciary employees filed 17 complaints against federal judges over 3-year period, new report says

Judiciary employees filed 161 complaints alleging wrongful conduct over three fiscal years beginning in 2020, and 17 of those complaints concerned judges, according to a report by the Government Accountability Office released Tuesday.

Jul 31, 2024 11:17 AM CDT

Defunct law firm Schnader Harrison loses bid to dismiss ERISA suit over handling of retirement money

A federal judge in Philadelphia has refused to toss a lawsuit accusing the now-defunct law firm Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis of using 401(k) contributions to fund operations and make distributions to equity partners.

Jul 24, 2024 10:29 AM CDT

Attorney with ‘cognitive impairment’ must receive disability pay, court says

An insurance company must provide a Minnesota trademark attorney who was diagnosed with bilateral invasive breast cancer with long-term disability benefits and pay her past-due amounts and attorneys’ fees, a federal court has ruled.

Jul 17, 2024 12:43 PM CDT

BigLaw DEI leader encountered bias after standing up to ‘nearly all-white firm,’ bias suit alleges

The former vice president of diversity, equity and inclusion at Armstrong Teasdale alleges in a bias lawsuit that the law firm fired her after rebuffing her requests for additional staff and preventing her from doing her job.

Jul 8, 2024 12:37 PM CDT

Southern Poverty Law Center’s layoffs are ‘no coincidence,’ union says

The Southern Poverty Law Center has acknowledged an “organizational restructuring” after the SPLC Union said the group laid off more than 60 union members, along with at least 20 supervisors, last week.

Jun 18, 2024 8:58 AM CDT

Supreme Court sides with Starbucks in blow to union activists

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday to restrict the National Labor Relations Board’s authority to obtain relief for fired union activists, in a win for Starbucks that could deal a blow to labor organizing efforts

Jun 13, 2024 2:00 PM CDT

Student editors at Columbia Law Review vote to strike after website shutdown, report says

The website of the Columbia Law Review was temporarily taken down last week, a reaction to a “secretive process” used in editing an article calling Zionism a form of colonialism and racism, according to the law review’s board of directors.

Jun 10, 2024 3:46 PM CDT

Law firm and lawyer in ‘quiet quit’ dispute drop their litigation

Dueling lawsuits between the law firm Napoli Shkolnik and a fired partner accused of "quiet quitting" have been dropped following private mediation.

Jun 6, 2024 1:01 PM CDT

BigLaw partner was demoted and later told to hang up his spurs, age-bias suit alleges

Fox Rothschild no longer has a mandatory retirement age of 72. But the law firm nonetheless discriminates against older equity partners, a lawsuit alleges, by demoting them, transitioning their role as billing attorney to younger partners, and making them sign renewable one-year contracts.

Jun 3, 2024 1:18 PM CDT

When does DEI training discriminate against white people? Courts will decide

Nondisparagement and nondisclosure agreements can let harassment fester, ABA warns

Duane Morris bestows partner title on powerless attorneys to shift tax and business costs, suit alleges

Judiciary employees filed 17 complaints against federal judges over 3-year period, new report says

Defunct law firm Schnader Harrison loses bid to dismiss ERISA suit over handling of retirement money

Attorney with ‘cognitive impairment’ must receive disability pay, court says

BigLaw DEI leader encountered bias after standing up to ‘nearly all-white firm,’ bias suit alleges

Southern Poverty Law Center’s layoffs are ‘no coincidence,’ union says

Supreme Court sides with Starbucks in blow to union activists

Student editors at Columbia Law Review vote to strike after website shutdown, report says

Law firm and lawyer in ‘quiet quit’ dispute drop their litigation

BigLaw partner was demoted and later told to hang up his spurs, age-bias suit alleges

Judge considers fate of Wisconsin law curbing collective bargaining by public employees

Lawyer disbarred following alleged cocaine-licking assault on employee at nightclub he owned

Former BigLaw employee alleges she was wrongly fired for vaccine refusal

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