Weinstein Saga Has Business Leaders Calling Their Lawyers

By Chris Opfer, Bloomberg BNA

The reverberations from movie producer Harvey Weinstein’s fall from grace has some businesses—and their lawyers—taking another look at how a permissive office culture can allow sexual harassment to go unchecked.

“I’m getting hit with a lot of calls,” Jonathan Segal, an attorney at Duane Morris who advises businesses on compliance with discrimination and harassment laws, told Bloomberg Law. “It isn’t really just what do we have to do to protect ourselves from liability, but also how do we protect our workers.”

Weinstein was canned in early October, following a New York Times report that he ...