MCNULTY JOINS BAKER & MCKENZIE
WASHINGTON Paul McNulty announced his next career move Monday. The former deputy attorney general has joined Baker & McKenzie as a partner in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office.
He will have a hand in several practices: business crimes and investigations, corpo-rate compliance and risk management, and global dispute resolution groups.
The trajectory of McNulty’s career fol-lows almost entirely an arch of government service, with stints in the House Judiciary Committee, the U.S. attorney’s office in the Eastern District of Virginia, and various appointments in the Department of Justice.
His last fling with the DOJ was his year-and-a-bit stint as the deputy attorney gen-eral, where he crafted the McNulty Memo and got an up close look at the U.S. attor-ney debacle.
Legal Times
BIAS SUIT AGAINST DUANE MORRIS OKD
A discrimination and retaliation lawsuit filed by a former contract partner against Duane Morris has survived the law firm’s motion to dismiss.
U.S. District Judge Joan Lefkow of the Northern District of Illinois allowed to stand several claims in an action brought by Gail Beesen-Dwars against the firm and David Yelin, managing partner of its Chicago office. Jane Dalton, a partner with the firm, is also named as a defendant.
Beesen-Dwars, who was a real estate contract attorney hired in Duane Morris’ Chicago office in 2000, alleged that she was the victim of age and sex discrimination following a different lawsuit filed against the firm by her secretary. The secretary claimed that Beesen-Dwars had made a racial remark against her, an allegation that Beesen-Dwars asserts was later disproved.
In a 31-page decision issued last week, the judge permitted Beesen-Dwars to proceed with some of her claims of sex and age discrimination, breach of contract, intentional infliction of emotional distress and failure to promote. The judge dismissed several of her claims, including some alleging discrimination that fell outside limitations period.
National Law Journal
