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 employees to settle disputes through a private arbiter rather than bringing their concerns to the courts.

Following the group’s success in lobbying law firms like Kirkland & Ellis and Sidley Austin to drop their mandatory arbitration policies in December 2018, the student organization turned their efforts to firms DLA Piper and Venable with site visits in Boston and Washington, D.C. this week.

Read more at the Harvard Crimson.