Gay Discrimination Suit Filed Against White-Shoe Law Firm

Aaron Brett Charney, an associate at white-shoe firm Sullivan & Cromwell, filed a lawsuit this morning against his law firm, alleging sexual orientation discrimination and retaliation. Mr. Charney, a graduate of Brown and Columbia Law School, works in S&C’s famed corporate department. As of presstime, his biography was still posted on the firm’s website. According Read More

Pre-Decided

Eliot Spitzer has said he’ll draw upon the collective wisdom of his massive team of transition advisers for important decisions.

When it comes to dealing with the possibility of removing Alan Hevesi, it already seems clear what direction they’re going to be pushing him in.

The 18-member committee Spitzer has formed to advise him Read More

Columbia Law Dean Learns ‘BCC’

“My op-ed in today’s New York Sun” was the subject line of an innocently self-promotional e-mail that Columbia Law School dean David Schizer blasted to nearly 11,000 Columbia Law School alumni in the United States shortly after 1 p.m. on March 3. In it, Mr. Schizer weighed in on the campus issue that has been Read More