A former DLA Piper associate who claims she was unlawfully fired after announcing her pregnancy was offered a chance to transition out of the firm "without anyone knowing that her work was subpar," a partner told a Manhattan federal jury Wednesday.
The Eleventh Circuit declined Tuesday to grant a trucking company a new trial on a $3.4 million verdict handed to an applicant who claimed the business walked back a job offer after learning that he is Black, ruling his attorney's "improper" arguments didn't taint the trial's outcome.
A Sixth Circuit decision upholding a U.S. Department of Labor rule barring third-party home care employers from claiming certain Fair Labor Standards Act exemptions could affect both the department’s proposed rewrite of the regulation and the litigation likely to follow, attorneys say. Here, Law360 looks at three takeaways from the decision.