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Recent EEOC Activity Highlights the Importance of Assessing Law Firm Partnership Practices

Activity by the EEOC in two distinct, but related, areas have combined to highlight even further the need for careful scrutiny by some firms of the policies and practices applied to their most senior partners.

14 minute read April 28, 2010 at 09:48 AM
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Karl G. Nelson And Andrew Legrand, JR.
Recent EEOC Activity Highlights the Importance of Assessing Law Firm Partnership Practices

In the January edition of this publication, Leslie Corwin detailed efforts in recent years by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) to challenge mandatory retirement and other age-based policies applicable to partners in certain professional service firms. 15 L. Firm Partnership & Benefits 11 (Jan. 2010).

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