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In-house lawyers want their external counsel to have diverse teams, but law firms aren’t doing enough to meet these demands
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In-house lawyers want their external counsel to have diverse teams, but law firms aren’t doing enough to meet these demands
A former associate in the intellectual property litigation group at Kirkland & Ellis in San Francisco can move forward with her sex discrimination lawsuit against the law firm, a federal judge in California ruled Wednesday.
Kirkland & Ellis is arguing that a fired associate’s lawsuit against the firm should be tossed partly because a harassment claim under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act can’t be based on “routine performance management.”
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