Female Jones Day Lawyers Will Forego Class Pay, Sex Bias Claims

Six female attorneys suing Jones Day for allegedly widespread sex discrimination told a District of Columbia federal judge their review of nationwide job evaluation and compensation data produced by the firm revealed insufficient proof of classwide pay or disparate impact bias.

Three of the women—Katrina Henderson, Saira Draper, and Meredith Williams—will withdraw their pending motion seeking conditional certification of a collective action under the Equal Pay Act, the women and Jones Day said Dec. 14 in a joint status report filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

Henderson, Draper, Williams, Nilab Rahyar Tolton, Andrea Mazingo, and ...