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Fired Legal Assistant at Kirkland & Ellis Claims Firm Restructuring Was Motivated by Age Bias

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Fired Legal Assistant at Kirkland & Ellis Claims Firm Restructuring Was Motivated by Age Bias ABA Journal A former legal assistant at Kirkland & Ellis alleges that the law firm discriminated based on age when it fired a group of older litigation support workers and made them reapply for new positions in a “sham process.” Former legal assistant Nancy Lynn Perkins, 60, says the firm attributed the firings to a reduction in force, but all the fired workers were older than age 55, report Bloomberg Law, Law360 and Law.com. READ MORE

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