Ex-Jones Day Couple Taps DC Litigator for Showdown With Firm

The married lawyers suing Jones Day over the firm’s parental leave policy have hired well-known litigator Alexandra Walsh as the long-running dispute heads toward a jury trial.

“This is a case about standing up to unfair treatment of a very powerful entity’s employees,” Walsh said Friday. “I feel really confident that a jury will agree that what happened here was discriminatory and retaliatory,” Walsh said.

Former Jones Day lawyers Marc Savignac and Julia Sheketoff accuse the firm of discriminating against men by giving them eight fewer parental leave weeks than women get for the addition of a child. They also ...