DLA Piper avoids pregnancy bias verdict as jury clears firm on maternity-leave firing
TL;DR
A Manhattan federal jury ruled that DLA Piper did not discriminate on the basis of pregnancy, finding the firm’s firing of Anisha Mehta after she requested maternity leave was justified by performance concerns, in a rare high-profile discrimination trial involving a major law firm.
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