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- Flaws and Gaps in Cyrus Mehri's Report on Racism in the Agency Business
- Cyrus Mehri's report on race discrimination in the advertising agency business finds that blacks make 20 percent less than whites, and are under-represented by half at all levels of the industry. But is his report going to lead to the big class-action lawsuit that he's hoping to create? A close...
- Blog posts 2009-01-09
- In Letter to P&G, Mehri and NAACP Say Talk of Minority Agencies Is "Counter-Productive"
- Cyrus Mehri and the NAACP have sent a strongly worded four-page letter to Procter & Gamble and a couple dozen other major marketers insisting that they force their advertising agencies to use non-white staffers in creative and account management positions. The letter is part of Mehri's plan...
- Blog posts 2009-03-25
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- MILLIONAIRE DJILALI MEHRI BUILDS 36 HOTELS
- According to El-Khabar newspaper (May 29, 2006), the Mehri Group, a private business entity owned by millionaire Djilali Mehri, announced that it would build 36 hotel properties in Algeria. The prominent Algerian businessman said that Mehri will contribute 40% of the required money for this project while the French hotel...
- Research articles 2006-05-30
- AdColor's Call to Arms Raises a Question: Where's Cyrus Mehri's Race Lawsuit?
- AdColor's call to arms in Ad Age -- which urges "changing the paradigm" sigh to increase ad agency diversity -- has a couple of problems. In the wake of Cyrus Mehri's attempt to recruit plaintiffs for a class-action race discrimination lawsuit against Madison Avenue, it looks a bit like an...
- Blog posts 2009-10-07
- Mehri & Skalet, PLLC, and Sprenger & Lang, PLLC, Announce Final Court Approval of Gender Class Action Settlement with Morgan Stanley on Behalf of Female Financial Advisors and Financial Advisor Trainees
- WASHINGTON -- In a ruling handed down late Friday, Judge Richard W. Roberts of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted final approval to a $70 million class action settlement of gender discrimination claims asserted against Morgan Stanley's Global Wealth Management Group. Plaintiffs are represented by Washington,...
- Research articles 2007-10-29
- Reminder - Mehri & Skalet, PLLC Announces HP Pavilion Settlement: Consumers to Receive Benefits if Claims Filed by May 1, 2006
- The Washington, DC law firm Mehri & Skalet, PLLC announces that on March 16, 2006, U.S. District Court Judge John Corbett O'Meara entered an order granting final approval to a nationwide settlement reached in one of the three cases filed against Hewlett-Packard Company on behalf of consumers who purchased certain...
- Research articles 2006-04-12
- Mehri & Skalet, PLLC Announces HP Pavilion Settlement: Consumers to Receive Benefits if Claims Filed by May 1, 2006
- The Washington, DC law firm Mehri & Skalet, PLLC announces that on March 16, 2006, U.S. District Court Judge John Corbett O'Meara entered an order granting final approval to a nationwide settlement reached in one of the three cases filed against Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HPQ) on behalf of consumers who...
- Research articles 2006-03-22
- Mehri & Skalet, PLLC and Sprenger & Lang, PLLC, On Behalf of Female Brokers, File Class Action Suit and Announce Progress Toward Nationwide Settlement With Morgan Stanley
- WASHINGTON -- Mehri & Skalet, PLLC and Sprenger & Lang, PLLC, two preeminent employment class action law firms, filed a nationwide class action lawsuit against Morgan Stanley yesterday. The lawsuit is brought on behalf of all female financial advisors at Morgan Stanley who were employed at any time from August...
- Research articles 2006-06-23
- Sprenger & Lang and Mehri & Skalet Announce Preliminary Court Approval of Class Action Settlement With Morgan Stanley
- WASHINGTON -- In a ruling handed down late Tuesday, Judge Richard W. Roberts of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted preliminary approval to a $46 million class action settlement of gender discrimination asserted against Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated's Global Wealth Management Group. Plaintiffs are represented...
- Research articles 2007-07-20
- The Results Of Mehri's Findings & The Impending Lawsuit For Blacks In The Ad Industry
- The ad agencies brought this on themselves. AdAge's Ken Wheaton called it in his July 2008 editorial, "Agencies Have Funny Way of Showing 'Commitment' to Diversity". Back then, when agencies failed to show up for The New York City Commission on Human Rights meeting, he said lawyers would come...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Diversity Study Takes Ad Biz to Task
- Cyrus MehriNEW YORK African-Americans in the advertising industry are significantly underrepresented and underpaid compared to their white counterparts, in part due to a "culture in which deeply-embedded racial bias, both conscious and unconscious, creates systematic barriers to inclusion" for black professionals, according to a new study commissioned by civil rights...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Push to consider minorities for top league job applauded
- Cyrus Mehri smiled with approval Tuesday when reading that outgoing NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue mentioned during a conference call he strongly believes minority candidates should be considered as his replacement. "We think it's very important," said Mehri, the high-powered attorney who helped spearhead the effort that led to the...
- Research articles 2006-03-22
- Advocate: Law could be 'catalyst'
- An attorney prominent in minority-hiring initiatives in the NFL sees Title VII as a potentially effective tool in efforts to increase the number of black head coaches in major-college football. "It can be a catalyst for change," says Cyrus Mehri, a founding partner in a Washington, D.C., law firm and...
- Research articles 2006-09-06
- Minority coaches: Great battle, wrong fight
- Stein, Leland, III Michigan Chronicle 02-18-2003 In the Detroit Lions' battle against the NFL's Diversity Committee, the lines of demarcation are blurred beyond a simple right or wrong retort. I stand strongly behind affirmative action and equal opportunity. So, when ...
- Research articles 2003-02-18
- Corporate America's scariest opponent
- Plaintiffs' lawyer Cyrus Mehri has forced Texaco, Coca-Cola, and the NFL to alter their diversity practices. His high-stakes racial discrimination class-action suits are changing the face of American business. Cyrus Mehri, the country's preeminent class-action attorney, is prepared to make your job a living hell. Last fall it was...
- Research articles 2003-04-01
- Gender Class Action Settlement With Morgan Stanley Announced Today
- Today, the law firms of Mehri & Skalet, PLLC, Sprenger & Lang, PLLC, and Moody & Warner, P.C. announced a significant settlement with Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated f/k/a Morgan Stanley DW Inc., on behalf of approximately 2,700 female Financial Advisors and Registered Financial Advisor Trainees employed at Morgan Stanley...
- Research articles 2007-04-24
- Cochran, Mehri to Call on NFL to Reform Hiring Practices; Report to Highlighting Inequities in NFL Hiring, Firing
- WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Employment discrimination attorneys, a labor economist and two leading authorities on race in sports will offer an unprecedented analysis of the National Football League's hiring and firing of black coaches at a newWASHINGTON, Sept. 27 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Employment discrimination attorneys, a labor economist...
- Research articles 2002-09-27
- Martha Burk & Attorney Cyrus Mehri to Discuss New Action Against Masterbs Sponsors (IBM, SBC Communications, Exxon Mobil), Lawsuit Against Citigroup
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- Research articles 2005-04-06
- Promoting NFL minority hiring
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: PROMOTING NFL MINORITY HIRING: Attorneys Johnnie Cochran (far, r) and Cyrus Mehri (2nd, r) discuss the state of minority hiring in the NFL with former NFL players (l-r) Kellen Winslow and Warren Moon. The NFL minority coaches and executives recently formed a group designed to ensure...
- Research articles 2003-03-31
- Division I-A tackles minority hiring
- Responding to years of criticism, the nation's major college athletics directors are drawing up new guidelines they say should improve college football's dismal minority hiring record -- their answer to the NFL's Rooney Rule. "Every struggle for fairness has a turning-point moment, and this is that...
- Research articles 2007-10-03
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