Harvard Law Students Call for Venable Boycott Over Arbitration

The Harvard Law student group that recently got Kirkland & Ellis to drop mandatory arbitration agreements for associates and other staff has launched a campaign against Venable, calling for students to boycott the firm due to its use of similar contracts.

The Pipeline Parity Project,an organization formed last year by law students at Harvard to fight harassment and discrimination in the legal profession, is asking students to decline recruitment interviews with Venable until the firm stops making members of its workforce sign these agreements.

The firm claimed in June 2018 that it wouldn’t require summer associates to arbitrate any ...