Corrected: Although the economy is improving, many law firms are still struggling to get back on solid footing. And this has exacerbated what the New York…
A federal judge in Manhattan is requiring a law firm to pay $15,000 for allowing a client suing her employer for discrimination to hide that she had accepted a new…
A judge has overturned the Wisconsin law curbing collective bargaining rights for most state and local workers, citing a violation of open meetings law.
A New York appeals court has ruled that a lawyer has no liability for using topless photos as leverage in his client’s sexual harassment suit against the president of a…
A former cheerleader for the Indianapolis Colts has sued the team alleging that it discriminated against her by firing her after she posed in racy photographs when it had not…
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius is standing by its report for the International Monetary Fund finding no wrongdoing by Dominique Strauss-Kahn when he had an affair in 2007 with a former…
An Ohio common pleas judge told nine members of his staff to quit the Fraternal Order of Police, according to the group’s Zanesville president, Tom Porter.
Starbucks fired an employee with dwarfism after refusing to provide her with a stool or stepladder, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleged in a lawsuit filed yesterday against the coffee…
An Arizona Daily Star public safety reporter terminated for posting what his bosses saw as inappropriate and unprofessional tweets did not have his rights violated under the National Labor Relation…
After a 2010 U.S. Supreme Court opinion that found Chicago’s entry-level firefighter test had a disparate impact based on race, the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today ordered…
An unidentified former student at a suburban Chicago high school has been charged with disorderly conduct after allegedly posting online and distributing at Oak Park-River Forest High School earlier this…
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