A Waste of Time? The War Against Jones Day Over Sex Bias Claims

What a royal tease.

It started off with a bang—saucy allegations of an entrenched frat culture, a leader who ruled like an autocrat and a system of rewards so impenetrable that it’s dubbed a “black box.” I thought all this would end in bright lights shining on the inner workings of a secretive, powerful firm.

So much for that. It promised so much yet delivered so little.

That’s how I feel about the finale to that cluster of gender discrimination lawsuits against Jones Day. Five of the six plaintiffs—all female lawyers formerly at the firm—have now dropped out of ...