We have had several points over the last forty years in which Americans have learned about sexual harassment – the 1991 Anita Hill senate testimony, the 2010 Casey Affleck allegations, and now the 2017 Harvey Weinstein revelations. Generations of women and girls learned that coming forward about sexual harassment often meant that you
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Biglaw Partner Resigns Amid Reports of Sexual Harassment Allegations at Prior Firm
The #MeToo moment is making it harder for businesses to allow bad actors to quietly move on to other opportunities, as demonstrated by the resignation of Mayer Brown capital market’s partner James R. Tanenbaum. Above the Law and The American Lawyer report that Tanenbaum resigned in March when it surfaced that he was fired from…
How Confidence, Entrepreneurial Skills, and Female Leadership Can Impact Sexual Harassment In The Workplace
An Interview With Dr. Cristal Glangchai
Women hold almost 52% of all professional jobs, but in business women are only 25% of executive- and senior-level officials and managers and are only 6% of CEOs. Other professions are no better – in law, women are only 22% of partners and in academia, only 31% of full…
Chair of Global Law Firm Resigns After Acknowledging “Communications of a Sexual Nature”
The chair and managing partner of the world’s second-highest grossing law firm has resigned after admitting to exchanging sexually-explicit text messages with a woman whom he’d never met. Bill Voge, who became chair of Latham & Watkins in 2015 after two prior stints on the firm’s executive committee, first contacted the woman in September 2017…
#metoo, Education, and Thoughts on the Root of Sexual Harassment
An Interview With Author and Filmmaker Raquel Cepeda
Before we can take steps in the U.S. to eliminate sexual harassment, it is important to understand why it’s so common in the first place. To me, the “boys will be boys” attitude begins to set in during childhood and sometimes extends to the courtroom when female…
Employee Interviews Confirm Role of Dallas Mavericks’ Workplace Culture in Enabling Sexual Harassment
It has been over a month since Sports Illustrated broke the story of the history of sexual harassment within the Dallas Mavericks’ organization. Since then, the team has hired outside counsel to investigate its culture, and brought in a new CEO who has committed to changing that culture going forward. Now, a new report from…