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Kovalenko v. Kirkland & Ellis LLP
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April 02, 2025
Ex-Kirkland Atty To Drop Bias Suit, Appeal Atty Firing Ruling
A former Kirkland & Ellis LLP intellectual property associate is expected to drop her claims against the law firm and related defendants, while also appealing a ruling that precluded her from firing her attorney in the case, the parties told a California federal court Tuesday.
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March 07, 2025
Ex-Kirkland IP Atty Can't Fire Her Bias Suit Atty 'For Cause'
A former Kirkland & Ellis LLP intellectual property associate suing the firm over bias claims cannot fire her counsel at Filippatos PLLC over professional misconduct allegations, a California federal judge ruled Thursday while allowing Filippatos to withdraw as her counsel.
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February 20, 2025
Ex-Kirkland IP Atty Asks To Fire Her Bias Suit Atty 'For Cause'
A former Kirkland & Ellis LLP intellectual property associate suing Kirkland over bias claims has urged a California federal judge to fire her counsel at Filippatos PLLC and force Filippatos to hand over her client file, disputing Filippatos' assertion that her professional misconduct allegations are a contrived attempt to avoid paying fees.
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October 02, 2024
Kirkland Accuses Ex-IP Atty Of Delaying Bias Suit Discovery
Kirkland & Ellis LLP told a California federal magistrate judge Wednesday that a former Kirkland intellectual property associate has delayed discovery production in her discrimination lawsuit against the firm, arguing that her discovery responses cite an erroneous legal standard, are non-committal and are "not even close to being proper."
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September 11, 2024
Kirkland Can't Shake Former Associate's Bias Suit
A California federal judge has mostly rejected efforts by Kirkland & Ellis to pare down the discrimination suit of a former intellectual property associate, while also backing a prior order that prevented the firm from subpoenaing her former BigLaw employers for confidential personnel information.
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February 20, 2024
Kirkland Can't Get 'Invasive' Atty Info From 2 BigLaw Firms
A California federal magistrate judge barred Kirkland & Ellis LLP from subpoenaing confidential personnel information from a former intellectual property associate's prior employers, Paul Hastings LLP and Fish & Richardson PC, in its defense against her discrimination suit, ruling that Kirkland's subpoena requests are "invasive," irrelevant and "amazingly broad."
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February 15, 2024
Kirkland Fights Uphill To Get Atty's Info From 2 BigLaw Firms
A California federal magistrate judge appeared skeptical Thursday of Kirkland & Ellis' bid to subpoena confidential personnel information from a former IP associate's prior employers Paul Hastings LLP and Fish & Richardson PC in Kirkland's defense against her discrimination suit, telling counsel the requests seem overbroad and "at best marginally relevant."
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February 09, 2024
Calif. Forecast: Nurses' Overtime Issue At 9th Circ.
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for Ninth Circuit oral arguments in a consolidated collective action dealing with whether nurses for the City and County of San Francisco are exempt from overtime. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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December 14, 2023
Kirkland Seeks To Toss Ex-Firm Atty's Sex Bias Suit
Kirkland & Ellis LLP and several of its partners have pushed a California federal court to throw out a former associate's discrimination suit, saying her claims cannot stand because they are "clearly deficient" and "obviously" late.
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October 19, 2023
Kirkland Says Ex-Firm Atty's Suit Still Doesn't Show Sex Bias
Kirkland & Ellis LLP and several of its partners are seeking to have a gender discrimination case against them dismissed, arguing to a California federal court that the former associate suing them is relying on "artful pleading" to disguise deep flaws in her case.