The $215 million settlement that Goldman Sachs agreed to this week to settle gender-bias class action litigation is enough to make any general counsel shudder.

It’s a reflex that legal chiefs have gotten to know well, such as when Google last year agreed to pay $118 million to settle gender-bias litigation. Gender-bias settlements in the tens of millions of dollars almost seem routine these days.

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