Partner with Lowenstein Sandler’s Employment Counseling & Litigation Group, Julie handles employment counseling and litigation for clients—from startups to public companies—in a wide variety of sectors, including technology and life sciences entities. Julie represents employers in litigation matters in federal and state courts on a wide variety of claims, including harassment and discrimination, wrongful termination, trade secret theft, and unfair competition. Her counseling practice also spans a variety of human resources issues facing employers, such as hiring and recruiting, worker classification, employee terminations, personnel policies, wage and hour matters, compliance with state and federal EEO requirements, and employment-related aspects of mergers and acquisitions transactions.
Coca-Cola Co.‘s unexpected removal of its top lawyer has put the company’s ambitious diversity standards for outside attorneys in limbo as questions are raised about whether race-based staffing requirements can be legally enforced.
It’s a laudable goal. But the standards of Title VII have been in place for almost 60 years and they haven’t changed. When the law says an employer can’t treat people differently or unfairly based upon their race and gender, that still applies.