JoEllen Dillon

Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 05.20.11

* Do you need to teach your wife a lesson? Allegedly, there’s an app for that. [Fox News] * K&L Gates provides a soft landing place for David DeNinno, the former Reed Smith partner who was called out in JoEllen Lyons Dillon’s sex discrimination lawsuit. [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette] * Delaware Chancellor William Chandler has decided to […]

Biglaw

Ex-Reed Smith Partner Drops Sex Discrimination Suit Against the Firm

Back in December, we covered a gender discrimination lawsuit filed by JoEllen Lyons Dillon, a comely corporate partner at Reed Smith, against the firm (where she still worked at the time). Dillon’s allegations were salacious. She claimed, for example, that “work was diverted … to female attorneys who were willing to engage in sexual relations […]

Akin Gump

Discrimination Lawsuit Potpourri: Reed Smith and Akin Gump

Pennsylvania legal circles are buzzing over a discrimination lawsuit filed yesterday in federal district court by a partner in the Pittsburgh office of Reed Smith. One source who informed us of the suit referred to “some really interesting allegations” against the firm. A corporate and energy law partner at Reed Smith, JoEllen Lyons Dillon, alleges […]