Heather Morgan, an employment law partner at Paul Hastings, heads the firm’s newly minted workplace data and technology practice, combining employment law, technology, e-discovery and data privacy. The launch comes amidst a near-daily stream of disclosures from Silicon Valley tech companies detailing workforce composition by gender, race and ethnicity. The firm is also responding, according to Morgan, to scrutiny of payroll information by the federal government in accordance with new rules for government contractors. Lawyers in the cross-discipline group will help employers harness workforce data to spot and fix compliance issues and help companies facing litigation to leverage data in their defense.
Q: Why is now a good time to launch this practice group?
