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Share this article Share this article SEATTLE, April 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Milberg Coleman Bryson Phillips Grossman ("Milberg") received a $11.1 million verdict today on behalf of client Scott Kingston who alleged IBM wrongfully terminated him after raising claims of racial bias in the treatment of his subordinates. Milberg attorneys Matthew E. Lee and Jeremy Williams, and Brittany Glass and Toby Marshall of Terrell Marshall Law Group PLLC represented Mr. Kingston in a Zoom jury trial held in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington.  At the end of the third sales qu...

ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT IBM Was Unfazed By Bias Complaint, Fired Manager Testifies Law360 (April 8, 2021, 10:55 PM EDT) -- A former IBM sales manager suing the company over his firing testified on Thursday that he was deeply distressed when a Black subordinate saw a large commission slashed without explanation, and even more so as higher-ups didn't bat an eye when he labeled it racial discrimination. Scott Kingston, who began his retaliatory firing trial against the company over Zoom on Monday, testified on Thursday that he rightly called out an issue when Black salesman Jerome Beard's ex...

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – IBM is headed to the courtroom via Zoom for a remote trial on April 5, 2021 as the defendant. The case, Scott Kingston vs. International Business Machines Corp., case number 2:19-cv-01488, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, moves to trial after Judge Marsha Pechman denied IBM’s motion for a summary judgment on all of Kingston’s claims, on March 1. Kingston alleges he was terminated by IBM in retaliation for protesting IBM’s decision to cap the commission of a Black employee on a large deal weeks after the company paid a white e...