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Outten & Golden LLP and Its Attorneys Among Best Lawyers and Best Law Firms for 2020

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Lawyers and practice groups from the nation's largest employee-side employment law firm selected to elite lists and rankings

Outten & Golden LLP Welcomes Seven Attorneys to Its New York, San Francisco and Washington, DC Offices

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Outten & Golden LLP is pleased to announce the addition of seven associates to the law firm's growing practice that includes representation of employees, executives, and partners in litigation and transactional matters. Five of the lawyers will join the firm’s New York office, and the sixth joins the Washington, D.C., office, and the seventh joins the San Francisco office.

Facebook Hit with Massive National Civil Rights Class Action by Women and Older People Denied Financial Services Opportunities on Facebook for Years

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Facebook users demand that the company immediately take action to stop financial services ads from being targeted away from women and older persons on Facebook. Outten & Golden LLP San Francisco

Twenty-Eight Outten & Golden Attorneys Named to the 2019 Lists of Super Lawyers and Rising Stars

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Outten & Golden LLP, a premier law firm focusing exclusively on representing employees, is pleased to announce that 28 attorneys across the firm's four offices in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C., have been recognized in the 2019 editions of Super Lawyers and Rising Stars.

Thomson Reuters' Super Lawyers rating service honors lawyers representing more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The multi-phased selection process includes independent third-party research, peer nominations, and peer evaluations....

Seventeen Women Attorneys at Outten & Golden LLP Named to the 2019 Class of Super Lawyers and Rising Stars

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Outten & Golden LLP, a premier law firm representing employees and executives in labor and employment matters, is delighted to announce that seventeen women attorneys were named to the list of Super Lawyers and Rising Stars for 2019.

Supreme Court to Weigh In on Workplace, Civil Rights Disputes

Bloomberg Law - Erin Mulvaney

The U.S. Supreme Court will confront key questions for employers as it begins its new term. Cases on tap involve LGBT rights in the workplace, the contours of age discrimination and other civil rights laws, and immigration disputes involving as many as 800,000 undocumented workers.

The Justice Department will play a role in many of these cases, testing the majority conservative court on several social issues, as well as stances that pit workers’ rights versus business interests.

LGBT rights in the workplace will take center stage in oral arguments scheduled for the opening week of the Supreme...

PBS show explores misconduct at Uber and Outten & Golden’s class action lawsuit success

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Recently, PBS and its New York affiliate, WLIW, aired an episode of renowned journalist Sheelah Kolhatkar’s show “Playing by the Rules” that focused on Uber and featured interviews with our lawyers Jahan Sagafi, Iris Mattes, and Rachel Dempsey.  That episode explores what went wrong at Uber, and how it found itself the subject of intense public scrutiny and criticism for allegations of discrimination and harassment.  In the episode, our legal team discusses their work advocating on behalf of female software engineers and software engineers of color who stood up to unfair employment practices...

In Supreme Court Brief, Leading Scholars Confirm DACA Benefits Immigrants And The Country As A Whole

Lawyers for Civil Rights—Outten & Golden LLP

Lawyers for Civil Rights (LCR) and the law firm of Outten & Golden LLP filed an amicus brief in the consolidated DACA cases before the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of 14 prominent empirical scholars who study DACA and its effects.

This unique brief, submitted by academic sociologists and economists with expertise on DACA, immigration, and migration, draws upon amici’s original research and the most extensive and up-to-date body of knowledge on the life-saving and life-changing protections granted by DACA, as well as the devastating consequences to recipients, their family members, and their communities if the Trump Administration’s cancellation of DACA were permitted to take effect.

Outten & Golden LLP: Google Cloud Executive Alleges Discrimination

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Ulku Rowe, a highly qualified technology executive with more than 20 years of experience in the financial services and technology industries, sued Google in U.S. District Court in New York, alleging the technology company violated the Equal Pay Act and New York Equal Pay Law, as well as the New York City Human Rights Act.

Housing companies used Facebook’s ad system to discriminate against older people, according to new human rights charges

Washington Post

Housing companies used Facebook’s ad system to discriminate against older people, according to new human rights charges.

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