Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer and a staffing agency will pay a $56,500 civil penalty and other fines to settle a Justice Department claim that the pair refused to allow non-U.S. citizens to work on a document review project.
A DOJ investigation concluded Arnold & Porter, one of the country’s largest 100 law firms, and Law Resources Inc. violated federal immigration law by excluding dual citizens and work-authorized non-citizens when hiring temporary employees to staff a 2018 project, according to the settlement agreement.
The settlement also resolves claims Law Resources retaliated against a worker who objected to the citizenship ...
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