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When the COVID-19 pandemic shut down workplaces and closed international borders, seemingly overnight in early 2020, many expatriate employees were suddenly thrown into crisis...

Outten & Golden LLP, By Tammy Marzigliano, Pawanpreet Dhaliwal, and Brittany Arnold

Daryl Woodruff was an interim superintendent and contender for a leadership position at PG&E. He was fired for fabricated performance issues after he spoke his conscience twice. First, he stood up for himself and his colleagues by complaining of race discrimination to the company’s human resources department. Second, he reported his good faith belief that other PG&E leaders had failed to inspect defective, potentially explosive electrical transformers and lied about it,...

The #MeToo movement has not spared law, with a federal appellate judge and the chair of one of the world’s largest law firms resigning over allegations of sexual misconduct in recent months.

News headlines regarding the allegations against Judge Alex Kozinski and Latham & Watkins Chair Bill Voge serve to highlight an underreported and widespread problem in the legal industry, according to Wendi Lazar, executive editor of a newly updated handbook published by the American Bar Association that offers the legal industry a detailed look...

A number of high-profile men have recently lost powerful positions over their alleged sexual misconduct. But for female victims of harassment, speaking up often is just as career damaging.

Managerial women who report such abuse can struggle to regain their professional momentum. To escape toxic work environments, they frequently quit or exit entire industries, and some choose different professions, according to interviews with lawyers and women who have experienced sexual harassment at work. When women resign due to sexual harassment, their earnings tend to stall or decline, an...

Jury selection starts Monday ahead of the Taylor Swift trial in Denver.

The music superstar is expected to testify against a former KYGO radio personality who has been accused of sexually assaulting Swift.

The jury selection is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. Monday. A jury of eight will be seated, according to the court clerk. Opening statements will likely start on Tuesday.

The A-list celebrity, with more than 85 million Twitter followers, is ready to tell the jury that she was groped during a meet-and-greet event before a concert at the Pepsi Center in 2013.

The...

Outten & Golden LLP partner Wendi Lazar, Michele Coleman Mayes, and Stephanie A. Scharf, write about pay equity.

You can read the whole article here: http://www.outtengolden.com/sites/default/files/pay_equity_law360_12_22_16-1.pdf

Donald Trump says he wants to run America like a business. But if America were a public company, Trump probably would be ousted as its chief executive officer after his recent vulgar remarks about women caught on tape.

While Trump’s supporters may be willing to write off his talk about making unwanted sexual advances as locker-room banter, corporate boards have been much less forgiving to top officials who engaged in arguably less crude behavior that could paint the company in a bad light or put it at legal risk.

“Any CEO who got caught making the kind of comments Trump did...

To understand why the American Bar Association is starting to take sexual harassment seriously, consider the story told by Mark Johnson Roberts, chair of the ABA's Commission on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, at the organization's annual meeting last week.

A few years ago, there was a female attorney in Oregon. She went to an office party at another firm, a business. Her opposing counsel in a case was there as well. During the party, the woman was sexually harassed.

"To make a long story short, he grabs her butt," Johnson Roberts said at the ABA meeting. "She tells...

"My clients have had male colleagues expose themselves in conference rooms, grope them in limousines after a hard day in the office, and threaten them that if they would not have sex in the bathroom at a retreat, they would not be promoted to lead counsel in a litigation.

These women need protection, and they need a remedy. Firms don’t want to punish their partners, and judges often are reluctant to police their own. So in the end there is no justice for victims of discrimination."

— Wendi S. Lazar, a member of the ABA...