by People's Parity Project | Dec 7, 2018 | Coercive Contracts, Firms and Forced Arbitration
Chicago-based Kirkland & Ellis, the world’s highest grossing law firm, announced that it has revised its forced arbitration policy and will no longer require non-attorney staff members to sign forced arbitration clauses. Update: Kirkland & Ellis has...
by Molly Coleman | Dec 3, 2018 | Coercive Contracts, Firms and Forced Arbitration
Thanks to new information provided by Stanford Law School’s Office of Career Services, the Pipeline Parity Project has updated our list of information regarding various law firms’ forced arbitration policies. Most notably, several firms that indicated in...
by People's Parity Project | Nov 21, 2018 | Coercive Contracts, Firms and Forced Arbitration
This morning, Kirkland & Ellis announced in an email to its attorneys that the Firm would no longer require its associates and summer associates to sign mandatory arbitration agreements. The statement reads as follows: Today is a good day for the legal field....
by People's Parity Project | Nov 12, 2018 | Coercive Contracts, Firms and Forced Arbitration
Kirkland & Ellis is now the biggest law firm by gross revenue in the world. That makes it the biggest employer at Harvard Law School to use forced arbitration agreements, a form of coercive contract that requires employees, as a condition of employment, to waive...
