The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a “class of one” equal protection claim by a worker who says she was fired from her state job because of discrimination.
An apparent proliferation of workplace affairs is sending a steady stream of new business into the offices of employment lawyers with a specialized practice expertise: the so-called love contract.
A federal magistrate has cut 50 hours and $400,000 from a request for attorney fees by the firm Outten & Golden in employment litigation that at times turned rancorous.
A partner at a New York law firm that bills itself as “dedicated to the empowerment of women in the workplace” has been accused of sexually harassing a former client…
Calling a fellow hotel employee a pig in Arabic while working as a desk clerk decades ago taught employment lawyer Michael Maslanka a lesson he has never…
A 250-lawyer New York-based international law firm known for its immigration work is the subject of a preliminary investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor, which says it may have…
The California Supreme Court hears oral arguments today on whether businesses can restrict career moves of their employees through noncompete agreements.
More than two dozen law professors have urged the…
Two cases in which companies fired employees whose relatives were incurring large health care costs could pave the way for more lawsuits under a little-known provision of the Americans With…
Once upon a time, a law firm only had to worry about office gossip circulating among its own troops and their friends in the local legal community. Today, leaked information…
Tavern on the Green has agreed to pay $2.2 million to settle accusations of harassment and retaliation in a lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
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