August 12, 2022
The Manhattan U.S. attorney's cyberstalking case against fired K&L Gates partner Willie Dennis was abruptly transferred to U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff on Friday with a scheduled September jury trial looming.
March 25, 2021
A federal judge in Manhattan agreed Wednesday to pause a racial discrimination lawsuit brought by a former K&L Gates LLP partner after a D.C. judge's ruling forced him to arbitrate his dispute with the firm.
November 20, 2020
An ousted partner accusing K&L Gates LLP of race discrimination is a "serial harasser" who has peppered his former colleagues with vulgar messages that included telling a Jewish attorney to "start the ovens," the firm told a Manhattan federal judge Thursday as part of a bid to freeze the ex-partner's bias suit.
November 10, 2020
K&L Gates LLP retaliated against a Black attorney who alleged the firm engaged in gender- and race-based discrimination by firing him after he worked there for over 13 years, the lawyer has alleged in a case in New York federal court in which he seeks at least $5 million in damages.