By Avalon Zoppo | March 18, 2024
"I think there's going to be a huge number of reverse discrimination type cases filed this year and in subsequent years," said employment lawyer Jason Schwartz.
By Chris O'Malley | February 26, 2024
Antonio Morales resigned from the home improvement retailer in 2020 after it told him to remove "BLM" from his apron. The National Labor Relations Board found Morales was within his rights to display it.
By Chris O'Malley | February 23, 2024
The automaker argues that the racial discrimination lawsuit suffers from "factual vacuity." Separately, it has asked the court to stay the case, asserting the agency skipped a required "conciliation" process in a mad rush to to outshine the California Civil Rights Department, which had filed its own suit.
By Hugo Guzman | January 26, 2024
"We sometimes hear employers sort of downplay the concern with the EEOC, believing they're going to slip under the agency's radar. But it's important to remember that where the EEOC leads, the private plaintiffs bar follows," Seyfarth Shaw partner Christopher DeGroff said.
By Chris O'Malley | November 3, 2023
"It really pays off to take that time and train anyone who has a hand in the hiring process," said Nancy Van der Veer Holt, a partner at FordHarrison.
National Law Journal | Analysis
By Chris O'Malley | November 2, 2023
"The way to minimize risk is the engage in conduct that promotes diversity without making decisions or limiting opportunities explicitly on the basis of race or gender," said Rutgers Law School professor Stacy Hawkins.
By Chris O'Malley | August 18, 2023
Some efforts have been overzealous to the extent they could be viewed as giving a discriminatory preference for a particular minority or group. "I thought, 'Holy cow, where was their in-house counsel on this? Where was their outside counsel?'" Shawe Rosenthal lawyer Fiona Ong recalled about one particularly egregious case.
By Chris O'Malley | August 15, 2023
"The use of shareholder lawsuits in this space is a real stretch. But I expect they will keep coming," Jason Schwartz, a partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, said.
By Maria Dinzeo | July 25, 2023
"I think it's going to lead to a great deal of litigation and will take a lot of time to clarify the standard," said Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of Berkeley Law.
By Maria Dinzeo | July 17, 2023
The letter sent by the attorneys general says "race-based employment and contracting violates both state and federal law, and as the chief law enforcement officers of our respective states we intend to enforce the law vigorously."
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