Biglaw Firm Hit by Law Student Protests Over Arbitration
Bloomberg Law reports that law students from elite universities protested outside DLA Piper offices in three cities Oct. 10, calling on the firm to drop arbitration agreements from employee contracts.
“Demonstrators from Harvard, Columbia, NYU and Georgetown law schools handed out leaflets in New York, Washington, and Boston,” writes Bloomberg’s Stephanie Russell-Kraft. “They’re part of a student-led initiative leveraging their status as top Big Law recruits to fight what they says is ‘harassment and discrimination in the legal profession.’”
DLA Piper partner Vanina Guerrero, who claims she was sexually assaulted and retaliated against by a fellow partner, said she is unable to bring those claims in court because of a mandatory arbitration agreement.
Read the Bloomberg Law article.
