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Paul Hastings’ ‘Employment Group of the Year’ Profiled by Law360
February 18, 2025
Recently honored as a “Practice Group of the Year” by Law360, Paul Hastings’ Employment team was profiled this week by the publication.
The profile noted that the Employment practice “represents major companies like Nike and Google, and handled overlapping discrimination government investigations against video game company Activision Blizzard.” The team is defending Nike in a high-profile gender discrimination putative class action and Google in a nationwide class action alleging race discrimination. For Activision Blizzard, the firm helped secure the resolution of state and federal regulatory investigations and lawsuits spanning a decade.
Elena Baca, global chair of the Employment Law Department, said the cases against Activision Blizzard and its subsidiaries were unlike any other case. "It was vigorously fought on all sides," she said. "That resolution required, and it reflected, that the state acknowledged that there had not been an investigation that had found that there was a systemic harassment issue.”
Felicia Davis, chair of the Los Angeles Employment practice, told the publication, “I think it says a lot that [these clients] trust us to handle their cases that they think are the most important to them. The [Google case] is probably one of the largest discrimination class actions that's been filed in recent memory because it is so broad, it relates to really all forms of employment decisions, including hiring.”
Kenneth Gage, a New York- and Chicago-based partner and co-vice chair of the department, added, “When the clients know or anticipate that it’s going to be a case that’s going to go the distance, maybe need to be tried, that's where we get retained.”
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