NALP Says Nope to Our Petition—But Our Fight’s Not Over
Earlier this year, we started a petition asking the National Association of Law Placement (NALP) to include information about which law firms subject their employees to forced arbitration in its directory of legal employers. This is vital to ensuring that law...
DLA Piper Dumps Partner After PPP’s Protest—But Will They Dump Forced Arbitration Next?
The day after our tri-city protest against DLA Piper’s continued use of forced arbitration, the firm decided to “part ways” with a partner accused of sexual assault. Another former DLA Piper lawyer came forward the same day with her own account of...
The American Lawyer: DLA Piper Clings To Mandatory Arbitration—But Not Louis Lehot—As Students Show Clout
Dan Packel writes for The American Lawyer on Law.com: (PHOTO) Law students with the People’s Parity Project distribute leaflets outside of DLA Piper’s Washington office on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019. It took just nine days for DLA Piper to part ways with Louis Lehot...
Global Legal Post: DLA Piper under fire
Dr David Cowan writes for the Global Legal Post: The allegations by Ms Guerrero has spurred law students into action, mounting a protest against DLA Piper’s use of mandatory arbitration agreements, which they say allows employers to hide misconduct like sexual assault...
ATL: Law School Students Protest Outside Of DLA Piper Over Alleged Sexual Assault
Kathryn Rubino writes for Above the Law: The heat is getting turned up on DLA Piper. When partner Vanina Guerrero wrote an open letter to the leaders of the firm accusing a fellow partner, Louis Lehot, of sexual assault, she also asked the firm to release her from the...
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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