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For many residents of the Bay area, Silicon Valley has become a glorified frat house. Drugs, ambition, sex and money have created a toxic “bro” culture in which women at best, feel sidelined, and at worst, feel abused.

“[The men] think they are above the law because they think they are changing the world,” says Emily Chang, journalist and author of bestselling book “Brotopia”.

Silicon Valley is still reeling from Chang’s book, which was published earlier this year, in which she claims to expose the tech industry’s “secretive, orgiastic dark side”. “From drug-fuelled orgies to the freewheeling...

Outten & Golden LLP partner Juno Turner is in the news for her efforts to get out the vote.

Facebook has been under steady fire over data breaches, misuse of personal data, improper reporting of video ad metrics, fake news and the use of its platform to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

So, what if the social network had a relatively easy way to put out one of its smaller fires: Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charges filed against it and 10 advertisers last month by the American Civil Liberties Union, Communications Workers of America and workers’ rights law firm Outten & Golden over the use of its targeting capabilities to deliver employment ads solely to male...

At a NY Bar Association panel behind closed doors, Ben Brafman addresses Gwyneth Paltrow and Rose McGowan ("quintessential non-victims"), the Brett Kavanaugh hearings ("an embarrassment to watch") and a #MeToo movement he says could undo progress for women.

Harvey Weinstein criminal lawyer Ben Brafman offered a candid and detailed preview Thursday of his defense strategy, accusing law enforcement of grave misconduct during the investigation and arguing the former mogul charged with sexual assault has become a scapegoat for an entertainment industry “defined by sex.”

Speaking on a panel behind...

A longtime executive at the American Bankers Association sued the trade association in Washington, D.C., court Thursday, alleging that women and minorities who work amid its “old boys’ club culture” are subjected to pervasive harassment and discrimination and that she was fired for speaking up about it.

Plaintiff Christine Walika, a former ABA executive vice president, alleged in her complaint that the trade association violated Washington’s Human Rights Act as well as the district’s Family and Medical Leave Act when it fired her in May.

After she raised her concerns about issues like race...

A new lawsuit alleges women and minorities employed by the American Bankers Association “are subjected to systemic discrimination and a culture of fear designed to deter them from reporting discrimination or otherwise advocating for equal opportunity,” the law firm Outten & Golden LLP said today.

Christine “Christy” Walika, a former executive vice president who worked for the organization for 25 years, sued the American Bankers Association in Superior Court in the District of Columbia, alleging the banking industry’s largest trade association violated the D.C. Human Rights Act and the D.C....

Mounting evidence shows the legal industry has a serious problem with bullying and harassment, a reality that some say is caused by structural inequality, while others point to a culture of aggression.

Preliminary results of a survey currently being conducted by the International Bar Association show that of nearly 5,000 legal industry respondents from across the globe, 43 percent report that they have been bullied while at work, including one in two women and one in three men. Meanwhile, 25 percent of all respondents said they had been sexually harassed at work, with that number landing at...

The headlines alone are dizzying. Since the New York Times reported allegations of serial predation by movie mogul Harvey Weinstein a year ago, at least 425 prominent people across industries have been publicly accused of sexual misconduct, a broad range of behavior that spans from serial rape to lewd comments and abuse of power.

That’s more than one newly reported person facing accusations each day, on average, for the last 12 months.

Hundreds of alleged bad actors—the vast majority men—were fired, resigned or faced other professional consequences. Some have apologized for specific actions...

In a famous study that illuminates gender discrimination in employment processes, musicians auditioning for a position in a symphony orchestra performed behind a screen so that the hiring jury would apprehend only the candidate’s playing of the instrument. Other considerations, such as the gender or physical appearance of the musician, would not come into play. Yet even with the screen, male musicians tended to fare better. The researchers conducting the study struggled to find out why; the male and female performers were similarly skilled. Finally it hit them: high heels make a distinctive...