Discrimination
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.01.17
* Supreme Court overrules presidential election! Unfortunately we’re talking about Kenya. [Huffington Post]
* Are partners employees? Asking for a couple Am Law 100 firms embroiled in a sexual discrimination suit. [Reuters]
* Baseball continues to enjoy the most arbitrary legal exemption ever. [Law360]
* Rumors swirl that Trump will announce the end of DACA today. Well, it is a Friday and we know how important that is for ratings. [GQ]
* Fox Rothschild partner scores primo U.S. Open tickets. [Am Law Daily]
* Jury finds that Manatt paid the wrong recruiter when it brought on a pair of lateral partners. [Law.com]
* As we slide toward bonus season, this is a good time to remind your bosses that performance reviews are stupid. [The Careerist]
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Labor / Employment, On The Job, Religion
Skirts, Hair Follicles, The Flu, And The Mark Of The Beast -- Say What?
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.03.17
* NAACP issues travel advisory for Missouri. Having been in Missouri recently… yeah this makes total sense. [CNN]
* Trump uses signing statement to tell Putin he’s sorry the meanies in Congress want to sanction him. [NPR]
* DLA Piper paying some of its associates more money. [Law.com]
* Microsoft is moving its work to alternative fee arrangements. It’s like what Uber tried to do… but with a much, much, much more successful company. [Law360]
* Dr. Dolittle of Schiff Hardin. [Litigation Daily]
* Iowa is reforming its juvenile justice system. [Courier]
* The best footnotes of all time. [National Law Journal]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 07.28.17
* The Senate rejects the latest GOP effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act — with Senator John McCain casting the decisive “no” vote. [Washington Post]
* Riley Safer Holmes and Cancila continues its rapid expansion, adding 13 new lawyers — including eight from Bryan Cave, led by former managing partner Joseph McCoy. [Law360]
* More bad news for the LGBT community from the Trump administration: the Justice Department takes the position that Title VII doesn’t cover discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. [How Appealing]
* Meanwhile, civil rights and LGBT groups get ready to file suit if President Trump’s plan to ban transgender people from the military becomes a reality (which is not yet the case). [National Law Journal]
* And these groups might just prevail — Michael Richter and Anna Pohl, chairs of the New York City Bar Association’s Military Affairs and LGBT Rights Committees, lay out the case for why the transgender ban is unconstitutional. [The Hill]
* Stephanie Francis Ward takes a long, hard look at the woes of Charlotte School of Law — and the rest of the beleaguered Infilaw consortium of law schools. [ABA Journal]
* Closing statements in the Martin Shkreli case paint very different pictures of the infamous “Pharma Bro.” [Law.com]
* Nuisance claims, or nuisance suits? Judge James Donato (N.D. Cal.) seems skeptical of a purported class-action case targeting Pokémon GO (which recently added Legendaries to the game). [The Recorder]
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Labor / Employment, On The Job
The 'N-Word': Is It Offensive Enough That A Single Utterance Creates A Hostile Workplace?
It's not clear -- but likely more than one such use is required. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 07.25.17
* Now Ivanka Trump’s hired Abbe Lowell. Hey, at least she doesn’t think she has any potentially adverse interests to her husband. Yet. [National Law Journal]
* Elon Musk may be looking for in-house counsel for the burrowing company he claims has a government deal to start building underground highways and super trains. First step for this new attorney? Explaining that, no, he does not have a government contract to start building underground highways and super trains. [Law.com]
* NFL cheerleaders can’t pursue antitrust action against entity that’s already lost an antitrust action. Remember that? When Donald Trump bankrupted a football league because he’s comically incompetent? [Courthouse News Service]
* Wells Fargo inadvertently released a bunch of client data and they want it back. One presumes these are real Wells Fargo clients and not the millions of fake ones. [Law360]
* ABA warns against weakening Medicaid. I’m sure that’s going to do the trick with this crew. [ABA Journal]
* Has R. Kelly hired Bill Cosby’s attorney? [Complex]
* An argument for Jeff Sessions keeping his job. [Litigation Daily]
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Labor / Employment, Old People, On The Job, Technology
Of Hoodies And Hoverboards: Age Discrimination In Tech
Is there such a thing as age discrimination in the World of the Future – the tech industry? -
Biglaw, Labor / Employment, On The Job
Quinn Emanuel Hit With Racial Discrimination Lawsuit
The allegations are shocking, but the firm states that they are "utterly without merit." - Sponsored
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 07.17.17
* Ty Cobb, a former federal prosecutor, has resigned from his post as a partner at Hogan Lovells to join President Trump’s legal team as the investigation into the campaign’s possible collusion with Russia continues to expand. Cobb, who’s related to the baseball player of the same name, leaves behind more than 30 years of history at the firm to collaborate with Marc Kasowitz, which should be interesting, to say the least. Dat stache, tho… [Bloomberg; New York Times]
* In other news, yet another member of President Trump’s legal team, Jay Sekulow, appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press and CBS’s Face the Nation yesterday in an attempt to solidify claims that his client, the commander-in-chief, had no knowledge of Don Jr.’s emails and meeting with the Russians, and that “there was nothing illegal to cover up” anyway. [Newsweek]
* Meanwhile, it looks like Trump’s lawyers knew about Don Jr.’s emails and meeting with the Russians more than three weeks ago, which makes the president’s assertion that he’d learned of it “a couple of days ago” all the more far fetched. In fact, per a recent FEC filing, President Trump’s reelection campaign paid $50,000 to Don Jr.’s criminal-defense lawyer, Alan Futerfas, on June 26, two weeks before the email scandal was made public. [Yahoo News; Daily Beast]
* “I think a politician or a public figure of note can have a Twitter account of public note which would not be deemed to be a public forum. But in the Trump Administration, what he says on his tweets are as much public in nature as a press conference.” Renowned First Amendment attorney Floyd Abrams explains why the litigants who sued President Trump for blocking their Twitter accounts might just have a shot when it comes to winning their case. [Big Law Business]
* “I wouldn’t rent to u if u were the last person on earth. One word says it all. Asian.” An Airbnb host has been taken to task by the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing after canceling a UCLA School of Law student’s cabin reservation based on race. Airbnb must also develop a discipline system for discriminatory hosts. We may have more on this later. [The Recorder]
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Labor / Employment, On The Job, Silicon Valley, Technology
'I'm a Creep,' And Other Silicon Valley Mea Culpas: So What?
Employment lawyer Richard Cohen asks: What can be done about the persistent problem of sexual harassment? -
Labor / Employment, On The Job
Sexual Harassment Can Happen… Anywhere
If you think sexual harassment occurs only in certain types of businesses or workplaces, think again. -
Labor / Employment, On The Job
Want To Get Sued? A Self-Help Primer
Run your firm the way that you want to – it’s your business, after all! -
Labor / Employment, On The Job
Fired For 'Acting Like A Man': Sexual Harassment Cases You Don't See Everyday (Hopefully)
Plus cases of women harassing men, and men harassing each other.
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Labor / Employment, On The Job
What Is Sexual Harassment In Today’s Workplace?
Has the twenty-first century seen the beginning of the end of sexual harassment in the workplace? Hardly. -
In-House Counsel, Labor / Employment, Old People, On The Job
Keeping Your Ageism In Check
This is a significant issue in the in-house world, where it's harder to know exactly how old your colleagues are. -
Labor / Employment, On The Job
Sexual Harassment Makes For Some Mighty Strange Cases
Some of the weirdest and most problematic cases of sexual harassment you'll ever see. -
Labor / Employment, Old People, On The Job
Should Men Use Botox? Ask The Thirtysomethings Who Want To Look Young Again
Ageism in the workplace is unabashedly rampant, employment lawyer Richard Cohen notes -- and it's against the law. -
Labor / Employment, On The Job
Sexual Jokes And Banter At The Water Cooler: Not Cool At All!
What about compliments to a colleague -- are those okay? -
Labor / Employment, On The Job
Sex Can Kill A Start-Up -- Sexual Harassment, That Is
Start-ups are fertile ground for sexual harassment -- and therefore sexual harassment claims. -
Justice, Racism, SCOTUS
Supreme Court Invents New Way To Go After Banks And Predatory Lenders
Supreme Court interprets the Fair Housing Act... fairly.