Jones Day Says Couple’s Bid for Partner Pay Data ‘Out of Step’

A request by two married former associates suing Jones Day for alleged job retaliation and other bias for information on partnership pay and promotions and the firm’s financial resources is based on “speculative leaps” and should be denied, the firm told a D.C. federal judge.

Mark Savignac should at least have to wait until he proves he would have become a partner if the firm hadn’t fired him in what he mistakenly alleges was retaliation for his complaint about sex bias in its parental leave policies, Jones Day said.

Discovery on the sort of forward-looking damages Savignac seeks based on ...