Legal News

Discrimination Suit Against Ballard Spahr Gets New Life
In an opinion handed down yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit determined that a portion of a discrimination case filed against Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll will be allowed to move forward...

Ballard Spahr Moves to Different Associate Comp Model
By Gina Passarella Of The Legal Staff Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll became the latest firm to cut associate salaries, according to reports first posted on legal blog ?Above the Law...

Ballard Spahr Adds Again to Bethesda Office
Ballard Spahr will be bringing Erica Leatham into its Bethesda office Monday in what marks the second hire this year for the firm's real estate practice in suburban Maryland. Leatham, who joins as of counsel, was previously a name partner...

Steptoe Gets Ballard Spahr Trademark Group
A group of trademark lawyers from Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, led by partner Brian Winterfeldt, is heading to Steptoe & Johnson?s Washington office. A D.C. legal recruiter says the group, in addition to Winterfeldt, includes two counsel and about...

Ballard Spahr Diversity Director Moves On
Stacy Hawkins, who has served as Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll’s first-ever director of diversity for a little more than year, has left the firm to start her own diversity consulting business...

Ballard Spahr Creates Subprime Lending Team
Just a few days after the American Dialect Society named ?subprime? as its word of the year, Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll created a practice around litigation and business issues that might stem from this summer?s subprime lending crisis...

The Civil Rights Act of 1871
Law bans discrimination enacted under color of state law

Discrimination
Federal laws prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability

Immigration Related Employment Discrimination & Unfair Labor Practices
What to do about employers who discriminate because of national origin

Drive Through Discrimination
Jack-in-the Box pays undisclosed racial discrimination settlement to two customers.

Housing Buyer Discrimination
White homeowner settles $30,000 buyer-discrimination lawsuit.

American State Bank Discrimination
$225,000 settlement reached in hiring discrimination lawsuit.

Religious Discrimination
NMSU to pay $165,000 in Muslim discrimination settlement.

Age Discrimination Suit Settled for $8.75 Million
Age Discrimination Class Action Settled for $8.75 Million

Breast Cancer Patient Awarded $8.1 Million in Discrimination Case
Breast Cancer Patient Awarded $8.1 Million in Discrimination Case