More than six years before a record-breaking gender-based employment discrimination suit was filed against Wal-Mart Stores in 2001, a law firm warned in a confidential report that the goliath retailer…
The New York State Senate passed a bill this week that could affect the lives of more than 200,000 domestic workers—many of whom have long gone without the…
In a new chapter of the ongoing, much-debated saga about appropriate attire for female professionals, a former business banking officer at a Citibank branch in New York City contends she…
A former Washington, D.C., administrative law judge who lost that job after unsuccessfully suing a dry cleaners for millions over a lost pair of pants has now had his lawsuit…
Former Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, now of counsel at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, was appointed yesterday to oversee efforts to diversify the New York Fire…
Forced to choose between her job and speaking on radio talk shows and at Tea Party events, a Florida prosecutor was fired this week after she refused to give up…
A former Hooters waitress claims in a discrimination suit that the restaurant placed her on “weight probation” and counseled her to join a gym so she could fit into her…
Ruling from the bench, a federal judge in Virginia has dismissed all claims against George Mason University and its law school dean in a high-profile sexual harassment suit.
Updated: The state department of justice is among the defendants in a lawsuit alleging that California agencies are discriminating against deaf workers by not providing them with required sign-language interpreters.
A wealth of studies show attractive people are viewed as likable, intelligent and good, and the “beauty bias” apparently extends to the legal profession, a law professor says.
A federal jury’s award of $250 million in punitive damages today in a corporate sex-bias case is reportedly the largest ever in a gender discrimination case.
A laid-off Eversheds associate who says he should have been rated higher than a colleague on maternity leave has won a bias judgment against the British law firm.
A now-former general counsel of World Wrestling Entertainment and a law firm paralegal reportedly have suffered job repercussions over unrelated situations concerning, respectively, a party after a WrestleMania 26 event…
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