Venturing into what a federal appeals court panel described as a new frontier of electronic communications law, the San Francisco-based 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals decided today that employers…
A federal judge is considering an evidentiary hearing into a contention that a $16 million Morgan Stanley racial discrimination settlement was “lawyer driven.”
Ordinarily, an employment discrimination lawsuit against a government entity is sparked by a problem between employees, or an employee and a supervisor.
Wal-Mart will pay $250,000 to settle a claim that it violated federal disability law when it fired a pharmacy technician who was injured in a shooting.
A lawsuit brought by the former chairman of the intellectual property practice at Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman highlights an unusual policy at law firms: The managing partner has authority…
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a “class of one” equal protection claim by a worker who says she was fired from her state job because of discrimination.
An apparent proliferation of workplace affairs is sending a steady stream of new business into the offices of employment lawyers with a specialized practice expertise: the so-called love contract.
A federal magistrate has cut 50 hours and $400,000 from a request for attorney fees by the firm Outten & Golden in employment litigation that at times turned rancorous.
A partner at a New York law firm that bills itself as “dedicated to the empowerment of women in the workplace” has been accused of sexually harassing a former client…
Calling a fellow hotel employee a pig in Arabic while working as a desk clerk decades ago taught employment lawyer Michael Maslanka a lesson he has never…
A 250-lawyer New York-based international law firm known for its immigration work is the subject of a preliminary investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor, which says it may have…