Equal Pay
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Law Schools
Longtime Law School Professor Sues University For Equal Pay
The professor has been at the law school the longest, and still doesn't get paid like her colleagues. - Sponsored
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Litigators
Kamala Harris's Equal Pay Plan Acknowledges The Weakness Of Lawsuits
It feels like an admission that courts cannot close the disparity.
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Biglaw
Equal Pay Pioneer Reflects On What It’s Like To Sue A Biglaw Firm
Kerrie Campbell thinks it's everyone's responsibility to challenge blatant inequality. -
Biglaw
Biglaw Firm To Pay Over $3 Million To Settle Pay Discrimination Case
The case has gone through many twists and turns, but is resolved at last. -
Biglaw
What's Next After Getting Publicly Fired By Your Biglaw Firm?
She's using her fight against Biglaw as motivation for the next step in her career. -
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Gender, Justice, Labor / Employment, On The Job, Women's Issues
Court-Sanctioned, Gender-Based Pay Discrepency? Say It Isn't So!
Employment lawyers fear gender-related wage claims because these complaints are so often valid. - Sponsored
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Gender, Justice, Labor / Employment, On The Job, Women's Issues
You Can Pay Women Less Than Men For The Same Job, As Long As She Was Making Less In Her Old Job
The glass ceiling is protected by circular logic. -
Biglaw, Partner Issues
Chadbourne Kicks Out Partner Suing Them Over Gender Discrimination
No matter what the firm says, they aren't finished dealing with Kerrie Campbell just yet. -
Biglaw
Court Docs Allege Biglaw Firm Made 'Undisguised Threat' To Potential Class Members
The latest update in the Days Of Our Biglaw Lives saga... -
Biglaw
Biglaw Firm Will Vote To Oust Partner Suing Them For Gender Discrimination
This is the juiciest Biglaw lawsuit in a while. -
Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 04.05.17
* Closer, but still not equal pay. (Yes, that still matters because we aren’t idiot goldfish who can’t possibly concentrate on more than one sh*tty thing that’s happening at a time.) [Deadspin]
* Neil Gorsuch’s writing deserves an F. [Law and More]
* Is there really an upside to the nuclear option for Democrats? [Slate]
* Because it might turn out to bite Republicans in the ass. [Huffington Post]
* The differences between this SCOTUS confirmation process and others. [Empirical SCOTUS]
* So, you’ve started your own law firm. Great! But now you have to hire your first employee… [Reboot Your Law Practice]
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Money, Women's Issues
The Gender Pay Gap – Don't We Have Bigger Problems?
We're dealing with a larger problem of workplace culture, according to columnist Jayne Backett. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 02.01.16
* Republican presidential candidate Senator Ted Cruz has pledged to “spend whatever political capital is necessary” to create the most conservative Supreme Court in our country’s history. Uh-oh! Voters better elect him, or else we’ll be “one justice away from … unlimited abortion on demand.” [ThinkProgress]
* A shakeup at the top? More than 20 Schiff Hardin partners — including the firm’s former managing partner, practice group leaders, and an executive committee member — are leaving to start their own firm thanks to an apparent leadership dispute. [Big Law Business / Bloomberg]
* On the seventh anniversary of his signing of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, President Obama took action to address the gender pay gap. Companies with 100 employees or more must now include salary info on their annual EEO reports. [New York Times]
* Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s legal team filed the first of what’s sure to be many appeals: They’ve asked the First Circuit to overturn his conviction and death sentence, as well as an order that he pay more than $101M to his victims. [Reuters]
* For some reason, people are highly opposed to the ABA’s proposal to lift its ban on law students receiving pay for their credit-bearing externship positions. Yes, let’s continue to make indebted students pay for their experiential learning opportunities. [ABA Journal]
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Biglaw, Sexism, Women's Issues
Biglaw Partner Alleges Sexism Derailed Her Career In A New Lawsuit
The complaint details a secretive system of compensation and credit that hides behind a veneer of transparency. -
American Bar Association / ABA, Biglaw, Department of Justice, Job Searches, Law Schools, Money, Morning Docket, Murder, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Trials, Women's Issues
Morning Docket: 06.11.13
* A case of Supreme Court techciting gone wild: What happens when your book is cited in a SCOTUS opinion, but to express an opinion you’ve never endorsed before? A whole lot of irony. [New York Times]
* The Justice Department is dropping its appeal over a federal order that would allow promiscuous prosti-tots minors to access the morning-after pill. Hooray, over-the-counter emergency contraception for all! [CNN]
* The National Law Journal just released the most recent edition of the NLJ 350. As we saw in the Am Law 100 and 200, “economic wariness” was pervasive throughout Biglaw in 2012. [National Law Journal]
* More women are “bringing home the bacon,” but it’s the cheap store brand because they can’t afford better. It’s been 50 years since the Equal Pay Act was signed into law, and women are still earning less money than men. [ABC News]
* When it came time for the ABA to change the time frame for law schools to submit jobs data, it pushed the decision back till August. Adopting the wait-and-see method already, huh? [ABA Journal]
* Jury selection has begun in the Trayvon Martin murder trial, where the verdict will hinge upon George Zimmerman’s credibility. It’s like we’re learning about trials for the first time, you guys. [Bloomberg]
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American Bar Association / ABA, Antonin Scalia, Bankruptcy, Biglaw, Civil Rights, Department of Justice, Election Law, Federal Government, Gay, Gay Marriage, Gender, Labor / Employment, Lindsay Lohan, Loeb & Loeb, Money, Morning Docket, Paul Clement, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Ted Olson, Trusts and Estates, Women's Issues
Morning Docket: 03.19.13
* President Obama nominated Thomas Perez, the head of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, to be the next secretary of labor. Republicans, of course, are all butthurtt, calling this a “needlessly divisive nomination.” [New York Times]
* Let’s get ready to RUMBLE! Be prepared to see some legal heavyweights next week when the Prop 8 and DOMA cases are argued before the Supreme Court, including Paul Clement and Ted Olson. [National Law Journal]
* How appropriate that Justice Scalia should break out the Spanglish for an Arizona voter registration law that requires proof of U.S. citizenship. Our beloved Wise Latina probably wasn’t too thrilled by this. [New York Times]
* To promote pay equity in law firms, the ABA is encouraging bar groups to hold conferences on the topic. The question on everyone’s minds, of course, is whether those conferences are billable. [Thomson Reuters News & Insight]
* Law schools aren’t the only places where transparency is lacking. Jeh Johnson, the DOD’s former general counsel, thinks the secrecy swirling around drone strikes is bad for the government. [At War / New York Times]
* The members of Debevoise’s displaced trusts and estates practice team have been picked up by Loeb & Loeb. Enjoy your new home, and your new — presumably lower — compensation package. [Am Law Daily]
* Lindsay Lohan took a plea deal yesterday, and instead of going to jail, she’ll be going to rehab to be kept under lock and key for 90 days. I’d say this is bad for her career, but who are we kidding? [Los Angeles Times]
* Casey Anthony’s trustee just answered my prayers. He wants the ex-MILF to sell her story to pay off her debts. I demand that LiLo be cast in the role! She’s the only one broken enough to pull it off. [Washington Post]