In our experience, most modern partnership/LLP agreements contain clauses which require partners/members to retire from the firm at a particular age, and most firms understand that forcing people to retire in accordance with such clauses will be direct age discrimination. Read more
On 28 May 2012 Dewey & LeBoeuf filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. On the same day the London-based LLP (Dewey & LeBoeuf UK LLP) was placed into administration. This represents the largest ever law firm collapse. Read more
In the recent case of Bates van Winkelhof v Clyde & Co LLP, the Employment Appeal Tribunal had to consider whether an LLP member was a “worker” in connection with claims for whistle-blowing, sex and pregnancy discrimination. The EAT overturned the Employment Tribunal’s decision that it did not have jurisdiction to hear a whistle-blowing claim because the claimant was not a “worker” and, as a consequence, was ineligible to bring the claim. Read more
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