Orange County Employment Attorney: Following its January 10th conference, the U.S. Supreme Court released its list of cases it will take and it appears that Bingham McCutchen has been left standing without a rose. This rejection dashes Bingham’s final hope to overturn a December 2012 trial court ruling that denied Bingham’s attempt to force a disability…
Orange County Employment Attorney: Great news! The OC Employment Attorney Blog’s own Tamara Freeze recently won a Motion to Compel discovery responses which also resulted in the trial court issuing monetary sanctions of $2,450 against defendant Bingham McCutchen LLP for its abuse of the discovery process (see the court’s order here). Plaintiff Hartwell Harris (who has maintained…
Orange County Employment Attorney: Eight months after a California Court of Appeal unanimously laid the smack down on Bingham McCutchen, ruling that their mandatory employee arbitration agreement was unenforceable, Bingham is going for broke and appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court. The appeal comes almost five months after the California Supreme Court denied Bingham’s request…
Orange County Employment Attorney: The California Court of Appeal slammed the door today on mega law firm Bingham McCutchen’s attempt to have a wrongful termination lawsuit (filed against them by their former litigation associate, Hartwell Harris) thrown out of court and into binding arbitration. In the 10-page opinion (certified for publication), all three justices in…