by People's Parity Project | Jun 7, 2021 | Courts, Get Involved, NYU
New York Governor Cuomo recently nominated Madeline Singas—a notoriously tough-on-crime prosecutor who spent her career at the Queens DA office that withheld exculpatory evidence and who has personally written about wanting to water down New York’s new (and...
by People's Parity Project | Feb 20, 2020 | Coercive Contracts, Firms and Forced Arbitration, Harvard, NYU
The firm will no longer require employees to sign a forced arbitration clause as a condition of employment. Cambridge, MA — This week, high-profile law firm Gibson Dunn announced that it will no longer force employees to sign an arbitration clause as a condition of...
by People's Parity Project | Dec 2, 2019 | Coercive Contracts, Firms and Forced Arbitration, Harvard, NYU
In March, the People’s Parity Project started a petition to the National Association of Law Placement, a group representing legal employers, to include information about forced arbitration in its Directory of Legal Employers. NALP’s directory features comprehensive...
by People's Parity Project | Oct 25, 2019 | Coercive Contracts, NYU
Law students at NYU School of Law met conference attendees with taped mouths and banners as PPP organizers continue to push for an end to all pre-dispute, binding arbitration. New York, NY — Two weeks after law students led multi-city protests against forced...
