One of our many brave clients, West Union Police Sergeant Sierra Fox, was forced to resign after reporting sex discrimination and filing a complaint to protect her rights. Now the...
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Settlement in Iowa Prison Guard Case
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. ~Martin Luther...
Pushed Out Before They’re Ready, Older Workers Struggle to Recover
ProPublica and the Urban Institute recently released a data analysis that paints a bleak picture for older workers in the United States. This is consistent with what we’ve been seeing...
TJ co-counsels on Age Discrimination suit against the University of Iowa
The types of calls we get seem to ebb and flow. Sometimes, we get a lot of calls about disability discrimination. Other times, we have a lot of inquiries about...
Come on Iowa, You Can Do Better Than This. Pay Up!
Iowa is well-known for being the first in the nation to hold its presidential caucus. Iowa is also winning national recognition as a great place to live. Some might say Iowa is the...
Are we Doing Enough to Protect Pregnant Workers?
Over the weekend, the New York Times published an article recounting horrifying stories of pregnant women, most of them working in a Verizon Wireless warehouse on the East Coast, and what happened...
Audio Recordings at Work: The Unbiased Witness
How many times have you heard someone downplay a situation as being “he said/she said?” Many of our employment and civil rights cases involve events witnessed by just two people,...
We Believe Dr. Ford and We Believe You, Too
What does it take to come forward with allegations of sexual harassment? It takes courage and strength that one might never fully comprehend unless they found themselves in a similar...
Silenced No More?
As a follow-up to our last blog post about the #MeToo movement, I wanted to talk more about confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements. In my experience, when a potential client who...