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A federal judge in Los Angeles has ordered the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to pay a hefty $1,022,653 in attorney’s fees and expenses to a Pasadena law firm that the EEOC unsuccessfully sued last year for pregnancy bias and sexual harassment. In issuing the order, the judge stated that the EEOC’s lawsuit “was unreasonable, […]
A new California Supreme Court ruling sends a warning that if you lure away someone else’s employees by illegal or unfair methods—even at-will employees who are free to leave their jobs anyway—you could get hauled into court.
The Ninth Circuit has reversed a lower court’s dismissal of an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit charging Pasadena-based law firm Reeves & Associates with sexual harassment and pregnancy discrimination. According to the appeals court, a jury could find that a hostile work environment was created because of founder Robert L. Reeves’ alleged sexual jokes, leering, […]
A California appeals court has upheld a $150,000 misappropriation of trade secrets judgment in favor of Pasadena-based law firm Robert L. Reeves & Associates, which sued two attorneys who resigned from the firm to start their own firm. Reeves charged that the attorneys improperly persuaded a group of Reeves’ employees to join the new firm […]