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Orrick Webinar: Reflections on Bostock: LGBTQ+ Rights in the Workplace and at the Supreme Court

Firm Event | July.15.2020 | 12:00pm - 1:30pm (Pacific Daylight Time)

Webinar - Recording Available

Orrick's LGBTQ+ Attorney Affinity Group, Women's Initiative, and Diversity & Inclusion Committee hosted a virtual Pride conversation on July 15, 2020.

The U.S. Supreme Court recently issued an important ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County affirming that LGBTQ individuals are protected from workplace discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. By a 6-3 majority, the Supreme Court concluded that Title VII's prohibition against discrimination "because of .. sex" covers discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. This webinar will discuss the background of this litigation, the majority and dissenting opinions, and how this landmark decision fits within the Supreme Court's LGBTQ rights jurisprudence more broadly. We will also address Bostock's practical impact and important issues the Court left unresolved.

For more information, please contact Annie Schmaeling or Angelique Magliulo-Hager.

CLE INFORMATION: This course is eligible for New York and California CLE credit. Please complete and retain the applicable form for your records. The New York self-study affirmation must also be emailed to Melissa Woods ([email protected]) and Jane Gracey ([email protected]). The California self-study form does not need to be emailed to Melissa Woods and Jane Gracey.

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP is an accredited MCLE provider in the State of New York. This transitional and non-transitional continuing legal education course has been approved in accordance with the requirements of the Continuing Legal Education Board for a maximum of 1.5 credit hours, of which 1.5 credit hours can be applied toward the areas of professional practice requirement.

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP is an accredited MCLE provider in the State of California. This continuing legal education course has been approved in accordance with the requirements of the State Bar of California for a maximum of 1.5 credit hour, of which 1.5 credit hour can be applied to the general requirement.

CLE Credits Available: Y

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Practice:

  • Technology & Innovation Sector
  • 複雑な訴訟および紛争処理
  • サイバーセキュリティおよびデータ機密性
  • 証券訴訟
  • 集団訴訟に対する弁護

Matthew D. LaBrie シニア・アソシエイト

Boston

Matthew D. LaBrie is a litigation associate in Orrick's Boston office. His practice focuses on complex commercial disputes as well as cybersecurity litigation and incident response.

In his commercial litigation practice, Matthew routinely assists clients at all stages of the litigation process, through motions practice, discovery, witness preparation, and trial. His litigation experience is broad, including data security litigation, securities litigation, shareholder derivative litigation, and class action defense, as well as commercial arbitration. Matthew also currently represents several companies defending against mass tort and products liability suits.

In his cybersecurity practice, Matthew counsels clients across the globe through all stages of a privacy or data security incident, navigating the relevant legal regimes, managing the response to and investigation of an incident, and handling any litigation or regulatory investigation resulting from the incident. Matthew spent a year based in Orrick's London office developing and coordinating Orrick's worldwide data breach incident response and litigation capabilities.

Matthew maintains an active pro bono practice. He has assisted individual clients with family law matters, advocated on behalf of veterans' rights, and represented human trafficking survivors in a series of federal cases*.

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Practice:

  • 雇用法および訴訟
  • 集団訴訟に対する弁護
  • 同一賃金
  • Environmental, Social & Corporate Governance (ESG)

Kathryn G. Mantoan オブ・カウンセル

サンフランシスコ; ポートランド

Kathryn (Katie) Grzenczyk Mantoan is Of Counsel in Orrick's Employment Law & Litigation group, working across the San Francisco and Portland offices.  She focuses on high-stakes employment litigation, compliance counseling, and litigation avoidance measures. Her practice has a particular emphasis on complex class actions and developing areas of the law including pay equity and pay transparency, and she co-chairs Orrick's Pay Equity Task Force.

Katie was a part of the trial team that obtained a complete dismissal for Oracle in OFCCP v. Oracle, a high-stakes systemic compensation discrimination case that garnered national media attention. Katie and her co-counsel were named "Litigators of the Week" by American Lawyer for the win.  Two years later, Katie and her co-counsel were named Runners-Up by American Lawyer for securing decertification of a 3,000-person putative equal pay class action for Oracle.

Previously, Katie received California Lawyer’s Attorney of the Year Award in 2016 and was named a Northern California Super Lawyers "Rising Star" for seven consecutive years. She regularly writes and publishes on employment law developments, having presented on topics to three separate state bar associations and a host of national and regional legal and academic conferences.

Katie started her career at Orrick in 2004 and returned in 2015. From 2011 to 2014, she was an associate at a litigation boutique in San Francisco where she handled employment and constitutional law matters.