Employment law firm Outten & Golden, facing a complaint for dropping its representation of a Columbia Law School professor, said it decided not to handle employee speech matters tied to the Israel-Gaza conflict.
“We did this after much consideration, and with the good of our firm and the well-being of our diverse workforce in mind,” Outten & Golden said in a statement Wednesday.
The professor, Katherine Franke, filed a complaint Sept. 10 with the Attorney Grievance Committee in New York saying that about two months earlier, Outten & Golden had “out of nowhere” told her it was dropping her as ...
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