Kirkland & Ellis Employee Advances Family Rights Bias Claim (1)

Kirkland & Ellis LLP must face an employee’s claim that a change in his work hours was driven by discrimination against his need to care for his daughter, a District of Columbia federal judge ruled.

The international law firm missed the mark in arguing that the former technology department worker’s family responsibilities discrimination allegations fell short under the District of Columbia Human Rights Act because the schedule change wasn’t an adverse job action, the US District Court for the District of Columbia said Monday. That view conflicts with the US Supreme Court’s holding in Burlington Northern & Sante Fe Railway ...