After 17 years in practice at Perkins Coie, partner David Symes is leaving the big-name Pacific Northwest law firm to open a new Portland, Ore., office for fast-growing Ogletree Deakins…
A New York attorney has sued a well-known plaintiffs’ class action law firm at which he formerly was employed as a temporary worker, contending that he should have been paid…
Corrected: Two Georgia attorneys reportedly were operating a private law practice at the same time that they held full-time positions as staff lawyers at the State Ethics Commission.
The former top lawyer for the city of Detroit plans to appeal a judge’s ruling throwing out her suit that claims she was forced to resign because of a “ghetto…
More than 200 ex-employees of Prudential Life Insurance contend that the New York law firm representing them in discrimination claims took $5 million from the company in exchange for steering…
A London lawyer who headed the legal department at insurance giant Zurich UK Services claims in a lawsuit that bullying from an underling led to her mental breakdown and firing.
A federal appeals court has reversed $25,000 in attorney’s fee sanctions imposed by a judge on a practitioner who won discrimination cases against FedEx, saying that the lawyer should have…
A veteran child-abuse prosecutor in Brooklyn, N.Y., is the subject of an internal investigation after legal interns complained that she repeatedly raised her voice and even threatened to fire them…
A former secretary at Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson claims in a revised lawsuit that the firm discriminated against older staffers and those who had taken family or medical…
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in a 5-4 decision that the National Labor Relations Board was acting without authority when membership on the five-member board fell to only two…
Domestic worker Agnes Cybulska claims in a lawsuit that an heir to the Annenberg fortune violated New York City’s human rights law by asking her to submit to an HIV…
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