A discrimination complaint threw a harsh light on Yahoo’s legal department, and two years later, the case remains one of the Internet giant’s ongoing struggles.

One of its own lawyers — a black woman named Eulonda Skyles — claims her bosses discriminated against her after she came back from a 2005 maternity leave. Skyles alleges she was passed over for promotions and relegated to employee slip-and-fall-type cases instead of the big-ticket litigation she had worked on before having a kid, until she left (says Yahoo) or was fired (says Skyles) in 2007.

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