April 02, 2025
A former Kirkland & Ellis LLP intellectual property associate is expected to drop her claims against the law firm and related defendants, while also appealing a ruling that precluded her from firing her attorney in the case, the parties told a California federal court Tuesday.
March 07, 2025
A former Kirkland & Ellis LLP intellectual property associate suing the firm over bias claims cannot fire her counsel at Filippatos PLLC over professional misconduct allegations, a California federal judge ruled Thursday while allowing Filippatos to withdraw as her counsel.
February 20, 2025
A former Kirkland & Ellis LLP intellectual property associate suing Kirkland over bias claims has urged a California federal judge to fire her counsel at Filippatos PLLC and force Filippatos to hand over her client file, disputing Filippatos' assertion that her professional misconduct allegations are a contrived attempt to avoid paying fees.
October 02, 2024
Kirkland & Ellis LLP told a California federal magistrate judge Wednesday that a former Kirkland intellectual property associate has delayed discovery production in her discrimination lawsuit against the firm, arguing that her discovery responses cite an erroneous legal standard, are non-committal and are "not even close to being proper."
September 11, 2024
A California federal judge has mostly rejected efforts by Kirkland & Ellis to pare down the discrimination suit of a former intellectual property associate, while also backing a prior order that prevented the firm from subpoenaing her former BigLaw employers for confidential personnel information.
February 20, 2024
A California federal magistrate judge barred Kirkland & Ellis LLP from subpoenaing confidential personnel information from a former intellectual property associate's prior employers, Paul Hastings LLP and Fish & Richardson PC, in its defense against her discrimination suit, ruling that Kirkland's subpoena requests are "invasive," irrelevant and "amazingly broad."
February 15, 2024
A California federal magistrate judge appeared skeptical Thursday of Kirkland & Ellis' bid to subpoena confidential personnel information from a former IP associate's prior employers Paul Hastings LLP and Fish & Richardson PC in Kirkland's defense against her discrimination suit, telling counsel the requests seem overbroad and "at best marginally relevant."
February 09, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for Ninth Circuit oral arguments in a consolidated collective action dealing with whether nurses for the City and County of San Francisco are exempt from overtime. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
December 14, 2023
Kirkland & Ellis LLP and several of its partners have pushed a California federal court to throw out a former associate's discrimination suit, saying her claims cannot stand because they are "clearly deficient" and "obviously" late.
October 19, 2023
Kirkland & Ellis LLP and several of its partners are seeking to have a gender discrimination case against them dismissed, arguing to a California federal court that the former associate suing them is relying on "artful pleading" to disguise deep flaws in her case.