Jones Day Women Point to Managing Partner’s ‘Totalitarian Grip’

Jones Day’s “hypercentralized,” subjective decision-making process is the type of specific employment practice needed to prove classwide bias, six female former lawyers told the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

That process places final control over pay, promotion, and other significant decisions “unchecked in the hands of one man,” Managing Partner Stephen J. Brogan, Nilab Tolton and the five other lead plaintiffs said Oct. 24 in a supplemental memorandum opposing Jones Day’s motion for partial judgment on the pleadings in their proposed class action, filed in April.

Brogan backs his “totalitarian grip” on Jones Day with a “no ...