March 21, 2025
Stifel Nicolaus & Co. has resolved a lawsuit from a banker who alleged her supervisor made sexual comments and touched her inappropriately, about six months after the Second Circuit found a law barring the mandatory arbitration of sexual harassment claims shielded her case.
May 15, 2023
A Stifel Nicolaus & Co. banker who said her supervisor sexually harassed her urged a New York federal court not to put her case on hold while the company appeals a decision that said a 2022 law blocked her case from going to arbitration.
March 31, 2023
A New York federal court on Friday reversed its decision to push an investment bank employee's sexual harassment and assault suit into arbitration, finding a recently enacted law banning mandatory arbitration is applicable because the worker says the conduct is ongoing.
July 18, 2022
An investment bank employee scored a green light Monday to challenge a decision pushing her sexual harassment and assault suit out of New York federal court, teeing up what could be among the first rulings on the boundaries of a law banning mandatory arbitration inspired by the #MeToo movement.