Lockheed Lawyer Who Gave Privileged Materials to EEOC Gets Trial

A jury must decide whether Lockheed Martin Corp. fired a Black female in-house lawyer because she accused it of race discrimination or because she shared attorney-client and other privileged information with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a Minneapolis federal judge ruled.

There’s evidence the company “lured” Daniel’la Deering into providing the documents to the job rights agency “so that it could terminate her employment,” the US District Court for the District of Minnesota said Tuesday. It noted that Deering had attached the confidential and privileged documents to her internal appeal of a performance review she disagreed with.

And an outside ...