The New York Law Journal’s May 10, 2019 article (and its headline), concerning a complaint filed by the U.S. Department of Justice against TransPerfect’s staffing agency for allegedly engaging in citizenship status discrimination, omits critical facts and falsely suggests that discrimination occurred “at TransPerfect,” when it plainly did not.  We write to set the record straight.

The salient facts are straightforward. TransPerfect’s client (an Am Law 100 law firm) dismissed two dual citizens whom TransPerfect recruited and placed at the law firm to work as contract attorneys on a limited-duration document review project. The law firm did not provide TransPerfect with any advance notice of its decision, and it is undisputed that TransPerfect had no control over the hiring or removal decision.