A retired Baker McKenzie partner from Illinois is the named plaintiff in a federal lawsuit challenging a California law that requires corporations to include women on their boards of directors.

Creighton Meland Jr., a former banking and finance partner in Baker McKenzie’s Chicago office, is represented by the Pacific Legal Foundation. The complaint, filed in California’s Eastern District, said the new state law “is not only deeply patronizing to women, it is also plainly unconstitutional.”

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