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Civil Litigation,
Labor/Employment

Feb. 22, 2018

Ogletree gets hit with discrimination, harassment lawsuit

Labor defense firm Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart PC has been hit with a second employment discrimination lawsuit, this time accusing the firm’s Los Angeles partners of discriminating against one employee on the basis of his sexuality and ethnicity.

Ogletree gets hit with discrimination, harassment lawsuit
Shegerian

Labor defense firm Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart PC was hit with a second employment discrimination lawsuit, this time accusing a Los Angeles partner of sexually harassing another male attorney and blocking his promotion.

The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in Los Angeles County Superior Court by Shegerian & Associates Inc., alleges Ogletree hiring partner Johnnie James repeatedly sexually harassed a male staff attorney...

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