July 19, 2021
A Washington, D.C., federal judge overseeing a suit by two former Jones Day lawyers challenging the firm's parental leave policy has approved limits on who can access sensitive information shared during discovery, but denied the ex-associates' bid for a more expansive protective order.
June 29, 2021
A pair of married former associates behind a bias suit against Jones Day brought bitterness but no evidence that the court needs to protect the BigLaw powerhouse's workers from retaliation based on information that might come out in the case, the firm told a D.C. federal judge.
June 17, 2021
Former Jones Day associates accusing the firm of gender bias in pay and its family leave practices told a federal judge that a protective order in the case is necessary to shield current and former workers at the BigLaw powerhouse from potential retaliation.
May 13, 2021
A former Jones Day lawyer has bolstered her and her husband's discrimination lawsuit against the powerhouse firm with details about life and pay as associates there, information a D.C. federal judge said she needed to provide in order to properly evaluate her wage bias claim.
April 29, 2021
A former Jones Day associate suing the firm for sex discrimination convinced a D.C. federal judge that he'd used too strict a legal test when he threw out her equal pay allegation and won the court's blessing to retry the claim under a lighter standard.
March 02, 2021
Two married former Jones Day associates suing over the firm's parental leave policy won't be able to notch a win ahead of discovery on a subset of their retaliation claims, after a D.C. federal judge concluded Tuesday that the plan would be inefficient.
February 24, 2021
Jones Day's decision to fire an associate who complained about the firm's leave policies was above board, the company said, arguing the attorney was dismissed for "extortionately threatening" the firm in his demand, not for the request itself.
February 12, 2021
Two married former Jones Day associates suing the firm over its family leave policy can beef up their case with retaliation claims based on a public statement the firm made about them two years ago, which the couple called "highly personal and malicious."
January 03, 2021
Cases where powerhouse law firms stand accused of subjecting lawyers and other staff to discrimination were closely watched in 2020. Here's where five suits against BigLaw heavyweights stand going into the new year.
October 20, 2020
A former Jones Day associate is doubling down on her request for a D.C. federal judge to reinstate her Equal Pay Act claim against the firm, arguing that it's resorting to "strawman" arguments as it tries to keep the accusation out of a case over its allegedly discriminatory family leave policy.