August 13, 2018
Proskauer Rose LLP and a female partner have agreed to end her $50 million sex discrimination suit alleging that the firm pays her less than her male colleagues and threatened to fire her when she complained.
April 26, 2018
The female partner suing Proskauer Rose LLP in a $50 million gender discrimination case identified herself in an amended complaint Wednesday as Washington, D.C.-based Connie Bertram and lodged new allegations that the firm has disparaged her and frozen her out of firm business because she filed suit.
March 29, 2018
A female Proskauer Rose LLP partner who brought a $50 million gender bias suit against the firm will have the chance to show she is an employee covered by employment discrimination laws and not an owner as the firm claims, a D.C. federal judge said Thursday.
March 13, 2018
A female partner accusing Proskauer Rose LLP of gender discrimination informed a Washington, D.C., federal court Monday that she intends to add new allegations to her complaint that the firm has continued to retaliate against her since the case commenced last year.
September 27, 2017
A female partner accusing Proskauer Rose LLP of gender discrimination told a federal court Tuesday that, contrary to what the firm says, she doesn't have access to many internal documents she needs to rebut the firm's claims she isn't an employee and that she fears being fired if she presents the documents she is able to obtain.
August 29, 2017
Proskauer Rose LLP tore into a female partner and practice group head’s $50 million gender bias suit against the firm in Washington, D.C., federal court Monday, arguing she can’t sue the firm under laws that protect employees and not equity-holding members of a partnership.
July 31, 2017
A female Proskauer Rose LLP partner urged a Washington, D.C., federal court not to toss her $50 million gender bias suit before discovery Friday, rejecting the firm’s claim that as a firm partner she lacks the statutory protections given “employees.”
June 14, 2017
Proskauer Rose LLP on Tuesday asked a Washington, D.C., federal court to toss a $50 million gender discrimination suit lodged by a female partner, arguing that she functions as an owner in the firm who isn't covered by the employment statutes under which she sued.
May 26, 2017
A Proskauer Rose LLP attorney embroiled in a $50 million gender discrimination suit against the firm lost her bid Thursday for a court order to force mediation services provider JAMS Inc. to preserve mediation session records that documented a retaliatory threat purportedly made against her by a Proskauer representative.
May 23, 2017
A firm mediating a sex bias dispute between Proskauer Rose LLP and a partner in the firm's Washington, D.C., office told a federal court on Tuesday that the partner should not have requested a preservation order for session notes, which she alleges contain evidence of retaliation, as the firm had already said it would not destroy them.