The largest corporate law firm in the U.S. devoted to labor and employment, Littler Mendelson, declined to represent clients in legal challenges to the Biden administration’s vaccine-or-testing mandate, part of a broader trend in Big Law.
A number of other elite management-side practices are also on the sidelines as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit considers one of the most contentious and consequential workplace legal battles in recent history. That list includes Gibson Dunn, Jackson Lewis, Morgan Lewis, Jones Day, and Ogletree Deakins.
The many employers, trade associations, and conservative nonprofits challenging the Department of Labor’s emergency ...