July 01, 2021
A New York federal judge has given a tentative green light to an early November trial in a former King & Spalding LLP associate's suit claiming the firm fired him for raising ethical concerns.
June 23, 2021
A New York federal judge pushed back to the final quarter of the year a trial over claims that King & Spalding LLP fired an attorney for raising ethical concerns, asking the parties to say whether their trial attorneys and proposed witnesses have been vaccinated against COVID-19.
March 01, 2021
A former King & Spalding LLP attorney who claims he was fired for raising ethical concerns could bring his case before a Manhattan federal jury as early as June, a judge said Monday, though coronavirus restrictions could further delay the case.
January 27, 2021
An ex-King & Spalding LLP lawyer who says he was fired for raising ethical concerns has agreed to give a portion of any potential winnings to his former counsel, who withdrew from the case in 2018 after the client questioned his competence and stopped paying his bills.
January 15, 2021
King & Spalding LLP and a lawyer who said he was unlawfully fired for raising ethics concerns will have to wait until at least June to square off at trial, after concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic led a New York federal judge to scuttle plans to push forward in April.
November 13, 2020
King & Spalding LLP and a former associate suing the firm over his firing have received a New York federal judge's approval to forgo a jury on one claim in the suit.
October 22, 2020
A judge's criticisms of King & Spalding will be trial evidence in a former associate's lawsuit claiming he was unlawfully fired for raising ethics concerns, a New York federal judge ruled Thursday, brushing off the law firm's protest that the critiques are "inflammatory."
September 01, 2020
A Manhattan federal judge on Monday scrapped a plan to hold a 2020 jury trial for David Joffe, the former King & Spalding LLP associate who claims the firm unlawfully fired him for raising ethics concerns, citing the coronavirus pandemic.
July 08, 2020
Witnesses in a whistleblower case against King & Spalding LLP don't have to share their computer screens while they testify remotely, a New York federal judge ruled Wednesday, turning aside a former employee's concern that lawyers representing the firm could secretly try to coach deponents.
June 24, 2020
A New York federal judge on Wednesday ripped a fired King & Spalding associate's demand for in-person depositions in his wrongful termination suit against the law firm as "tomfoolery," saying the current coronavirus health crisis makes such in-person meetings too dangerous.