Law360: Harvard Group Ups Pressure To End BigLaw Forced Arbitration
Chris Villani of Law360 writes: A group of Harvard law students that has launched a year-long campaign to end so-called coercive contracts in the legal industry said Tuesday it is escalating the pressure by sending teams to hand out fliers outside DLA Piper’s Boston...
Above the Law: Law School Students Are Taking To The Street Over Biglaw Firms With Mandatory Arbitration Agreements
Kathryn Rubino wrote for Above the Law: If legal industry insiders thought they could just wait out the uproar overmandatory arbitration agreements as a condition of employment at Biglaw firms, well, they may have misjudged the situation. A group of Harvard Law...
Law Students Nationwide Step Up Pressure Campaign Against Law Firms’ Use of Forced Arbitration
A year after public outcry began over law firms’ use of forced arbitration as a condition of employment, law students around the country are stepping up the pressure on legal employers who continue to make use of these coercive contract provisions. Forced arbitration...
DLA Piper Responds to #DumpDLA—Spoiler Alert: It’s Weak
DLA Piper has already gotten wind of the Pipeline Parity Project’s #DumpDLA campaign that was launched today. Unlike Kirkland & Ellis, which has refused to respond to questions from the Pipeline Parity Project as well as various media outlets about whether or not...
Law360: After Kirkland, Sidley Arbitration Flip, Group Eyes DLA Piper
Chris Villani wrote for Law360: After pressuring Kirkland & Ellis LLPand Sidley Austin LLP to reverse arbitration policies covering employment disputes, a group of Harvard law students on Wednesday urged peers to “dump” DLA Piper until the firm...
This past week has seen a repudiation of the court-based theory of change that has defined legal liberalism for several decades in the US: a theory that elite lawyers will always be able to use elite reasoning to persuade elite judges not to let things get out of hand.
when we said we were ready for #HotLaborSummer, we were referring to workers’ rights, not forced childbirth 🫠
(thank you to @Shut_downAmazon for showing up & see you at @PeoplesParity soon!!) https://twitter.com/scottheins/status/1540752108340641793
.@Shut_downAmazon at last night's march for abortion rights in Manhattan
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