Federal Litigator Behind Oracle Lawsuit Being Reassigned by DOL

U.S. Labor Department leadership is moving to reassign its top West Coast litigator, Janet Herold, who spearheaded a series of employment discrimination lawsuits against Silicon Valley tech giants, including a pending case against Oracle Corp., Bloomberg Law has learned.

Herold, an Obama-era career appointee who serves as the department’s Regional Solicitor for San Francisco and head of branch offices in Los Angeles and Seattle, was told in a meeting late last month that Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia is transferring her from the Office of the Solicitor to DOL’s occupational safety agency where she will head the Chicago office, three ...