Munger Tolles, Orrick To Scrap Employee Arbitration Agreements

Munger, Tolles & Olson will no longer require any of its employees to sign mandatory arbitration agreements.

The Los Angeles-based litigation firm announced the new policy in a Tweet on Sunday after facing criticism by Harvard Law School lecturer Ian Samuel, who tweeted pictures of the firm’s arbitration agreement with incoming summer associates.

“I think this is the grossest thing I’ve ever heard. Munger ought to be ashamed of themselves. And I will be making an extremely large fuss about this,” tweeted Samuels, who also co-hosts the podcast First Mondays, about the Supreme Court.

The leaked agreement required employees to ...