Law 360
NOVEMBER 8, 2021
A California appellate panel has backed a lower court's ruling that Reed Smith LLP shouldn't be disqualified from a suit against clothing retailer LuLaRoe, agreeing that its attorneys followed the necessary privilege obligations when handling documents leaked to the firm anonymously by an opposing firm's legal secretary.
SCOTUSBlog
DECEMBER 31, 2022
In court papers, she was identified only as “L.C.”. Four years later, her case reached the Supreme Court. In a 6-3 opinion by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the court ruled in Olmstead v. In 1948, Cecilia “Cissy” Suyat took a job as a legal secretary at the NAACP in New York City.
SCOTUSBlog
DECEMBER 1, 2023
One California-based firm, Gibson Dunn, did offer O’Connor a job – as a legal secretary. Less than 25 years later, the court effectively ended the use of race in college admissions. Also like Ginsburg, O’Connor was unable to find work at a law firm even though she was at the top of her class and an editor of the law review.
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