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.
August 23, 2023
A California federal judge on Wednesday refused to toss the core elements of a former Kirkland & Ellis LLP associate's suit alleging she was fired without warning after complaining about top intellectual property partners favoring her male peers.
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.
January 24, 2023
Kirkland & Ellis LLP has contended that a former associate's claims for sexual harassment and defamation fail in part because "routine performance management" can't form the foundation for a Title VII claim, according to a reply brief reiterating the firm's stance that the associate's sex bias suit should be tossed.
January 10, 2023
A former Kirkland & Ellis LLP associate urged a California federal judge to ignore the law firm's motion to dismiss her complaint claiming she was held to a stricter standard than her male colleagues before being wrongfully terminated, saying the firm's motion is meritless, but also asked for room to amend the complaint if necessary.
December 20, 2022
A Kirkland & Ellis LLP partner asked a California federal judge to ditch claims by a former associate accusing him of sex bias, arguing that she failed to state any actual examples to back her claims in a termination suit against the firm.