Womble Carlyle Beats EEOC Suit Over Fired Cancer Survivor

By Allissa Wickham ( June 27, 2014, 4:28 PM EDT) -- Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice LLP on Thursday escaped a suit brought by the U. S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission over the firm's firing of an assistant who couldn't lift heavy items because of a cancer treatment-related disability, with a North Carolina federal judge finding the ex-employee was unable to perform essential functions of her job. . . .

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