Accenture Defeats Ex-Manager’s Bias Suit Over ‘Racist’ Client

Accenture LLP prevailed in a race discrimination and retaliation suit brought by a Black former manager who alleged he was fired after complaining about a client’s employee’s behavior.

Jeffery Johnson failed to provide sufficient evidence of racial animus in the consulting company’s decisions to not reinstate him on a project or to terminate him, the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois ruled Tuesday.

Johnson started working at Accenture in January 2018, and he began to suspect racism during his fourth project with a client referred to only as Client A. Client A’s employee was allegedly combative, angry, ...