Future Lawyers Take to the Streets to Protest Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault at DLA Piper
Law students protesting outside DLA Piper’s Boston office today. Boston, MA — On Thursday, October 10, law students in three cities took to the streets to tell DLA Piper to stop subjecting its employees to forced arbitration. The firm continues to use these...
Working Mother’s “Best Law Firms for Women” Are Anything But
Yesterday, Working Mother released its twelfth annual list of the 60 Best Law Firms for Women. The list purports to recognize the U.S. law firms “that utilize best practices to recruit, retain, promote and develop women lawyers.” Working Mother praised firms including...
Survey Says: Law Firms Are Ditching Forced Arbitration (But Here’s How to Avoid the Ones That Aren’t)
The results of Harvard Law School’s 2019 survey on forced arbitration are in. If you’re a law student hoping to work for a law firm, here’s what you need to know. What is forced arbitration? Hidden in the fine print of many employment contracts, forced arbitration...
The Harvard Crimson: Harvard Law Students Push to Reform Law Firms’ Contracts for Incoming Associates
Connor W.K. Brown wrote for the Crimson: Students from Harvard Law School’s Pipeline Parity Project and other law students across the country continued their campaign this week against mandatory arbitration clauses — provisions of employment contracts that require...
Bloomberg Law: Law Students Put More Pressure on Big Law Over Arbitration
Melissa Heelan Stanzione wrote for Bloomberg Law: Law students concerned with the use of mandatory arbitration agreements in law firm employment contracts are taking action this week to pressure law firms into eliminating the practice. Hundreds of students have signed...
Just learned that one of our major local law firms that is prominently featured as a sponsor of bar association events and legal aid organizations spends its days defending major corporations against veterans' mesothelioma claims. Love this for us
It bears repeating over and over and over again that forced arbitration is central to abuses of corporate power. It squelches private enforcement, and we're left with public enforcement agencies that don't have anywhere near the resources to attack these issues alone. https://twitter.com/leah_nylen/status/1600173553420099589
@FTC Chair Khan speaking at the WSJ CEO Council this AM on taking on the biggest companies: The FTC is “entirely outgunned, especially when we are up against some of the most formidable and wealthiest and most powerful companies in America."
Funding for the NLRB has been static since 2014, even as petitions to form a union are up 58% in 2022 compared with 2021.
If we don't fully fund the NLRB, the laws that protect unionizing workers go unenforced. Tell your senators that's unacceptable: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/fund-the-nlrb/
No serious person can believe that firms that make their money by defending corporations who destroy the environment and exploit workers are hostile to conservatism - they are its main defenders.
"What the Court of Appeals does affects the same sweep of life and law that the Supreme Court does. Courts like this need diversity of experience. They need judges in their collective who come in with different sensitivities and appreciations." https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-ny/ny-state-of-politics/2022/11/29/hochul-s-chief-judge-pick-will-be-closely-watched