July 10, 2023
A D.C. federal judge shot down dueling sanction bids Monday in a hard-fought suit challenging the parental leave policy at BigLaw powerhouse Jones Day.
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.
April 12, 2023
Two former Jones Day associates challenging the firm's parental leave policy urged a D.C. federal court to hand them a win, arguing any jury would find sexism at least partially to blame for the disparity in leave given to male and female attorneys at the firm.
March 06, 2023
Jones Day wants a Washington, D.C., federal court to shut down a headline-grabbing lawsuit challenging its parental leave policy and to sanction the two former associates who filed it, saying that after discovery the plaintiffs have found "no valid evidence" to support their claims.
January 30, 2023
Two former Jones Day associates challenging the firm's parental leave policy say the firm's "frivolous" sanctions motions against them is "calculated to harass" and is itself grounds for sanctions, according to a cross-motion filed in D.C. federal court.
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.
December 05, 2022
Jones Day has asked a D.C. federal court to toss a suit brought by two married former associates challenging the firm's parental leave policy, arguing their claims are so lacking in evidence that the ex-employees should be punished for refusing to drop them.
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.
May 13, 2022
Two married former Jones Day associates who are suing the firm over its parental leave policy can't change their charges against their former employer because of the amount of time that passed between the court dismissing the couple's original allegations in 2019 and their new filing, a D.C. federal judge ruled Thursday.
March 01, 2022
Jones Day and two married former associates suing the firm over its parental leave policy can't work out their differences in a discovery battle, documents filed Monday show.