January 09, 2024
A legal career development veteran on Tuesday told the Manhattan federal jury hearing a former associate's retaliation claims against Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP that industry pros are friendly with young lawyers, but said that they can't be a "friend friend" to them.
January 08, 2024
A Black former Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP associate asked a Manhattan federal jury Monday to hold the firm liable for allegedly firing him in retaliation for his workplace complaints, but the firm countered that he was let go because of poor job performance.
December 04, 2023
A Manhattan federal judge on Monday rejected an attempt by a Black former Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP associate to drastically expand his upcoming retaliation trial, calling it an arbitrary bid to potentially "torture" his former employer with excessive litigation.
October 16, 2023
A former Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP attorney suing the law firm alleging it fired him as retaliation has lost his recently filed bid for discovery-related sanctions, with a New York federal judge blasting his motion as a "tactical decision to sandbag his adversaries."
July 06, 2023
Law firms including Graham Curtin, DLA Piper, Napoli Shkolnik and Kirkland & Ellis are all facing bias or retaliation lawsuits by people who have worked for them — mainly lawyers — including accusations of age, race and sex discrimination.
March 07, 2023
Following the dismissal of a Black former Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP attorney's racial discrimination claim against the firm last month, a New York federal judge ordered that the attorney's remaining retaliation claims be mediated by a magistrate judge because "the issues remaining in this case are now substantially narrower."
February 16, 2023
A Black former Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP associate hasn't provided the evidence that a jury could use to find that he suffered race-based discrimination while employed at the law firm, a Manhattan federal judge ruled Thursday, trimming the attorney's bias claims but keeping alive allegations of retaliation.
January 02, 2023
Jones Day, Davis Polk and Levi & Korsinsky are among the legal industry players embroiled in discrimination and harassment cases brought from within their ranks that will see major developments in the coming year. Here, Law360 looks at five ongoing employment suits against law firms worth keeping track of in 2023.
July 21, 2022
Buchalter APC recently joined the ranks of national law firms facing workplace discrimination lawsuits from within their ranks. Here are five discrimination cases against law firms to keep an eye on in the second half of 2022.
March 14, 2022
The latest round of briefing in a Black former Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP associate's job discrimination lawsuit has not revealed a "shred of evidence" that he was pushed out for raising concerns about race and diversity, the firm has told a Manhattan federal judge.