Men are filing an increasing number of workplace bias lawsuits, according to employment lawyers and figures provided by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Apparently seeking to help associates maintain a better work/life balance, one of London’s major “magic circle” law firms has banned attorneys from using their BlackBerrys while on vacation.
Concerned that professionals are double-dipping into public payrolls, New York’s Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has sent 200 letters throughout the state letting individuals know that their employment arrangements have raised…
In a case that is expected to be watched with considerable interest not only by United Kingdom law firms but by other employers with mandatory retirement policies, a British solicitor…
A federal judge has agreed to hold a hearing into a contention that a proposed $16 million Morgan Stanley racial discrimination settlement was “lawyer driven.”
Updated: A trusted employee who had worked 16 years for a custom window builder in Houston was reportedly enjoying a luxe lifestyle for some time with the $6 million she…
A judge has ruled that an Ohio prosecutor fired for walking around naked after hours in a government building where he worked is entitled to civil service protections.
At the heart of an age and sex discrimination case against Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom is a onetime litigation counsel’s liberal use of a common law firm perk:…
Striking back at a former partner who last month filed a defamation claim over a law firm press release that he had been fired for “extremely inappropriate personal conduct,” Kasowitz…
Banned from the main Broward County, Fla., courthouse and reassigned to work on traffic cases after a reported verbal altercation with another judge, Judge Jay Spechler resigned earlier this year.