Not many disputes over pay equity in large law firms are taken public through high-profile litigation. And when they are, they often settle for undisclosed terms, as was the case Friday when Greenberg Traurig and former shareholder Francine Griesing stipulated the withdrawal of her $200 million gender discrimination putative class action against the firm.
But that doesn’t mean the issue of disparate compensation between male and female shareholders isn’t prevalent throughout the country’s largest law firms, experts and survey data say.
