Not exact matches
(The interview came on the heels of Pao's high - profile court loss to her former employer, venture capital
firm Kleiner Perkins, for
alleged gender
discrimination.)
Mayor Bloomberg's financial - information
firm is trying to turn the tables on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which is suing Bloomberg LP for
alleged gender
discrimination, by asking how it accommodates working mothers and moms - to - be.
A former employee of a company co-founded by genomics pioneer J. Craig Venter has filed a lawsuit
alleging gender
discrimination against the
firm's female employees — and
alleging harassment by Venter himself.
Kerrie Campbell was catapulted to prominence when she sued her former
firm Chadbourne & Parke — which merged with Norton Rose Fulbright last June —
alleging gender
discrimination.
An unnamed partner in Proskauer's Washington DC office has sued the
firm in federal court,
alleging she is a victim of
discrimination and claiming «substantial gender disparities» in the
firm's partnership.
According to the report, Alyson Kirleis, an employment lawyer herself, filed an EEOC complaint and, subsequently, a federal
discrimination suit against her longtime law
firm, Dickie McCamey & Chilcote,
alleging claims in the nature of a hostile work environment.
According to this news story, national law
firm Sidley Austin has settled a
discrimination lawsuit brought by the EEOC
alleging that Sidley's mandatory retirement policy and demotion of 32 older attorneys violated age
discrimination law.
Good
alleged discrimination in employment against Coven LLP, a five - member all - witch
firm, her when the application process on its website requested her to proclaim her «religious affiliation» from a pull - down menu that only listed two choices: «pagan» and «non-pagan.»
The
firm both prosecutes, and defends, claims relating to sexual harassment in the work place, wrongful termination and related
discrimination claims, pregnancy
discrimination claims, and cases
alleging discrimination based upon race, religion or ethnicity.
When a female lawyer files a public complaint against her
firm alleging gender
discrimination, the
firm's response tends to fit a standard model: a denial of any
discrimination and a confirmation of the
firm's commitment to advancing women lawyers.
That partner had
alleged that she suffered
discrimination based on the law
firm's mandatory retirement policy.
The B.C. Supreme Court ruled last year that McCormick could be considered an employee of the
firm as an equity partner, allowing him to go before the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal for
alleged age
discrimination by Faskens.
Bloxham, former head of insolvency at Freshfields,
alleges that changes made to the
firm's pension arrangements for retired partners amounted to direct and indirect
discrimination against older partners.