Discrimination
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Allen & Overy, Biglaw, Defamation, Federal Judges, Magic Circle, Minority Issues, Morning Docket, Racism, Trials, United Kingdom / Great Britain
* Thanks to the slow transactional markets in Western Europe, Magic Circle firms like Allen & Overy, Linklaters, and Clifford Chance are struggling to pull a rabbit out of a hat in terms of gross revenue and profits. [Am Law Daily]
* If at first you don’t succeed because of John Ashcroft, try, try again. Former Missouri Supreme Court Judge Ronnie White is once again being considered for the federal bench in St. Louis. Good luck! [Missouri Lawyers Weekly]
* In case you’ve been sleeping under a rock, Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev pleaded not guilty to murder charges. He’s looking at life in prison or the death penalty. [Bloomberg]
* Target, if you’re wondering why you’re getting sued, it’s because of this alleged memo explaining that not all Hispanic employees eat tacos, dance to salsa, and wear sombreros. [Huffington Post]
* “Please don’t be hung” is a solemn prayer that’s only useful to a woman whose case is on re-trial. Ex-Bengals cheerleader Sarah Jones’s defamation suit was sent to the jury. [Associated Press]
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Boutique Law Firms, Labor / Employment, Litigators, Plaintiffs Firms, Sex, Sex Scandals, Small Law Firms
The Delaware Court Of Chancery Seems Annoyed With Juan Monteverde
If you’re a defendant in a salacious sexual harassment lawsuit, should you disclose that when seeking pro hac vice admission?
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“I’ve landed a job as an associate at a top law firm, but why am I paying 7% on my student loans?”
I became a lawyer without really understanding that the job cuts time off of your life. My work hours are long, I can’t see my family or friends, and I am constantly at the mercy of the partner or the client. On top of everything, at one point, I was paying 7% on my law school loans. […]
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Biglaw, Disasters / Emergencies, Federal Judges, Gender, Mergers and Acquisitions, Morning Docket, Murder, Pregnancy / Paternity, Tax Law, Technology, Trials, United Kingdom / Great Britain, Women's Issues, You Go Girl
* Our thoughts and prayers go out to the people of Oklahoma. [CNN]
* The IRS and the Treasury Department better watch out, because it seems that the “next logical step” for the tea party victims of heightened scrutiny leads right up the courthouse stairs. [ABC News]
* #Whatshouldwecallme after advising on the $1.1 billion Yahoo/Tumblr deal? Kind of a big deal. The Biglaw firms doing the underlying legal work are Simpson Thatcher and Gunderson Dettmer. [Am Law Daily]
* The Mirena MDL judge thinks female attorneys should be on the all-male executive committee. If this is “strategic gender placement,” the strategy is to look bad publicly. [Thomson Reuters News & Insight]
* The Travers Smith trainee who was fired for getting pregnant is due in court this June to find out what type of compensation she’ll receive for being discriminated against by the firm. You go girl! [Daily Mail]
* Wherein the parents of a 0L who’s got doubts about her employment prospects are counseled that she can “work not just in law.” ::facepalm:: [Law Admissions Lowdown / U.S. News & World Report]
* There’s trouble in paradise: lawyers in the Jodi Arias case unsuccessfully attempted to get a mistrial and withdraw from representation — for the second time — during its punishment phase. [Fox News]
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Boutique Law Firms, Defamation, Labor / Employment, Media and Journalism, Oral Sex / Blow Jobs, Plaintiffs Firms, Sex, Sex Scandals, Small Law Firms, Vanderbilt, Women's Issues
Can This Litigation Get Any Uglier? Alexandra Marchuk Amends Her Complaint Against Faruqi & Faruqi
Alexandra Marchuk isn’t taking the Faruqi & Faruqi counterclaims lying down. Here’s her vigorous response.
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Biglaw, Pregnancy / Paternity, Secretaries / Administrative Assistants, Women's Issues
Lathamed Secretary Alleges Pregnancy-Related Discrimination
This former secretary alleges that her supervisor said her pregnancy complications “were not his problem.”
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Gender, Labor / Employment, Texas, Women's Issues
Gender Discrimination Suit Alleges Men and Women Couldn’t Be ‘Alone Together’ at This Texas Law Firm
Would you be happy working at a firm where men and women couldn’t even be alone together in the same room?
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Education / Schools, Law Professors, Law Schools, Lawsuit of the Day, Old People, Sex Scandals, UVA Law
Is Washington, D.C., the capital of… crazy lawsuits?
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Boutique Law Firms, Defamation, Labor / Employment, Oral Sex / Blow Jobs, Plaintiffs Firms, Sex, Sex Scandals, Small Law Firms, Student Loans, Vanderbilt, Women's Issues
Lawsuit of the Day: Nobody Puts Faruqi in the Corner
Nobody puts Juan Monteverde in the corner. A boutique law firm and one of its partners hit back — hard — against an ex-associate’s salacious allegations.
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Biglaw, ERISA, Gender, Intellectual Property, Labor / Employment, Litigators, Litigatrix, Old People, Partner Issues, Partner Profits, Patents, Women's Issues
Does Ropes & Gray Hate the Old and Gray?
Wouldn’t you love such generous retirement benefits?
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Lessons Learned from the Top eDiscovery Cases and Trends from 2014
The adage that law turns slowly does not hold in eDiscovery. This year saw unprecedented sanction awards for falling behind the curve. Courts did not hesitate to engage with advanced and nuanced technological issues. For lawyers and other eDiscovery professionals who plan on maintaining basic competence, these cases and trends shouldn’t be overlooked. For a full exploration of trends and developments in this area of case law, check out this on-demand webinar.
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Football, Law Schools, Non-Sequiturs, Politics, Rankings, Rape, Sports, United Kingdom / Great Britain, Videos
* Real Housewives “star” Porsha Williams Stewart found out about her husband, former Pittsburgh QB Kordell Stewart, filing for divorce from the media. She shouldn’t have been surprised. Slash was always elusive. [USA Today]
* An anonymous Twitter account wreaks havoc on UK law students. One Tweet: “#LawTips: edit the Wikipedia page after copying it to avoid plagiarism.” Here’s a pro tip: if you’re copying Wikipedia for law school, you’re doing it wrong. [Legal Cheek]
* How out of control is tuition? At 26 law schools, recent graduates with $160,000 in annual income are STILL eligible for the federal IBR program intended to relieve the debt burden on impoverished students. [Constitutional Daily]
* As our own Juggalo Law pointed out, the NFL engages in some awfully shady sexual orientation profiling. [Sports Law Blog]
* You’d think the Republicans would be all for funding scientific endeavors to prove that rape victims in the animal kingdom “have ways of shutting that down.” [Jezebel]
* UNLV Law Dean Nancy Rapoport takes issue with Professor Derek Muller’s ranking of “Career Baristas” out of law school. If there was one dean who was going to know the statistical angles, it was going to be the one in Las Vegas. [UNLV Law Blog]
* Ever wanted to watch video of the folks from Lawyers, Guns & Money discussing Game of Thrones? Sure you have! And that’s why we invented jumps…
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Books, Boutique Law Firms, Labor / Employment, Lawsuit of the Day, Plaintiffs Firms, Sex, Sex Scandals, Small Law Firms, Student Loans, Vanderbilt, Women's Issues
Lawsuit of the Day: A Super-Salacious Suit Against A ‘Legend’ of the Bar
If these allegations are true, this is a very sad and ugly story.
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Federal Judges, Judge of the Day, Labor / Employment, Minority Issues, Racism, Religion, Texas
Judge of the Day: Lynn Hughes Strikes Again
Judge Hughes is at it again, according to a new recusal motion.
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Adoption, Biglaw, Gender, Labor / Employment, Lawsuit of the Day, Reader Polls, Sexism
Lawsuit of the Day Update: More About Levinson v. WilmerHale
Additional tidbits about both the plaintiff, from former colleagues at WilmerHale, and about the firm, from women who have worked there.
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Adoption, Biglaw, Gender, Labor / Employment, Lawsuit of the Day, Sexism, Women's Issues
Lawsuit of the Day: A $5 Million Discrimination Suit Against a Top Law Firm
Which firm is being sued, and what are the plaintiff’s allegations?
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Education / Schools, Kids, Labor / Employment, Lawsuit of the Day
Lawsuit of the Day: Teacher Claims School Failed To Accommodate Her Pedophobia
Are pedophobes as big of a threat to our children ans pedophiles?
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Law Professors, Law Schools, Sex Scandals, Sexual Harassment
Law Professor Sues School For Putting Him On ‘Keep It In Your Pants’ Leave
Law professor accused of inappropriate behavior sues his law school.
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Fat People, Gender, Jury Duty, Women's Issues
Overweight Women Continue to Be Judged Harshly for Everything, Everywhere — Including Courtrooms
What is to be done about weight bias against women in America’s courts?
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Biglaw, Gender, Lawsuit of the Day, Sexism, Women's Issues
Would you want to work at a law firm where women are allegedly encouraged to have intimate relationships with firm leaders in order to be promoted? We didn’t think so.
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