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Understanding neurodiversity can help you become a better lawyer
(ABA News & Insights, May 7, 2025)
During this ABA continuing legal education webinar, “Accommodating Neurodiversity: A Model for Inclusion in the Legal Profession,” Deborah and co-panelists discuss how employer strategies to accommodate neurodivergent employees can make workplaces better for everyone.
What is intersectionality and how to handle it
(ABA News & Insights, February 3, 2023)
Deborah joined co-panelist Phillis Rambsy of Rambsy Law at the American Bar Association 2023 Midyear Meeting in New Orleans to discuss how courts typically view cases involving intersectional identities, particularly the identities of Black women, and how lawyers can help push the law closer toward justice by telling their clients’ stories more effectively.
‘Early Career’ Recruiting Strategies Risk Age Bias Liability
(Bloomberg Law Daily Labor Report, October 5, 2022)
Deborah spoke with Bloomberg about potential factors leading to a rise in claims of age discrimination against employers nationwide.
Deborah K. Marcuse receives Leaders in Law Award from the Maryland Daily Record
(Maryland Daily Record, April 8, 2022)
The Maryland Daily Record recognized Deborah for work that included a successful challenge to the constitutionality of bond hearings in Maryland immigration courts and a groundbreaking settlement of a gender discrimination class action against Dartmouth.
The Choice Is Yours
(Women Worth Watching, 2021)
“As a litigator and a manager, I define a functioning workplace as one hospitable to human life. Yet my own choices about how to work and live have at times sent a different message.”
Preliminary approval on $14M Dartmouth harassment settlement
(The Boston Globe, January 30, 2020)
This historical settlement between the Ivy League institution and plaintiffs represented by lead class counsel Deborah Marcuse included a $14 million monetary settlement and an additional $1.5 million in programmatic relief.
Partial Settlement In MoFo ‘Mommy Track’ Lawsuit
(Above the Law, December 3, 2019)
Many lawsuits once filed are resolved prior to trial through private settlements between the parties.
Deborah Marcuse recognized as an Employment Law MVP by Law360
(Law 360, November 15, 2019)
Marcuse’s busy year included striking a settlement with Dartmouth College on allegations it subjected a class of female student-teachers to a gender-based hostile work environment, resolving another systemic sex discrimination suit against Merck & Co. Inc., and pressing suits accusing legal giants Jones Day and Morrison & Foerster LLP of underpaying and underpromoting women.
MoFo’s Attempt To Play Hard Ball With Gender Discrimination Plaintiff Fails
(Above the Law, April 19. 2019)
Above the Law recounted Deborah and her team’s win against a baseless motion for sanctions by a BigLaw firm defending against class claims of gender discrimination.
Gender Discrimination in Biglaw
(Legal Talk Network, April 19, 2019)
Deborah spoke with Above the Law’s Kathryn Rubino about what a series of highly public gender discrimination lawsuits against BigLaw firms mean for the legal industry more broadly.
Judge Puts an Early End to Morrison & Foerster’s Sanction Request in Gender Bias Lawsuit
(Law.com, April 18, 2019)
Deborah and her team swiftly prevailed against a baseless sanctions motion from defendant in this class action alleging gender discrimination against another BigLaw firm.
BigLaw firm seeks sanctions against plaintiff, firm in suit alleging ‘mommy track’ bias
(ABA Journal, April 10, 2019)
When Deborah’s client argued that her law firm’s decision to terminate her two weeks before her six-month maternity leave was scheduled to begin warranted the recission of the release she had signed under “economic duress,” the BigLaw behemoth filed for sanctions against Deborah’s client and her firm. But Deborah and her team fought back.
‘Someone Has to Speak Up’: Lawyers Suing Jones Day Say Career Risk Is Worth It
(Law.com, April 5, 2019)
Before Andi Mazingo was Of Counsel at Marcuse Law LLC and Founding Attorney of Lumen Law Center, P.C. she was a courageous associate discussing her decision to serve as a named plaintiff in a class action alleging gender discrimination against her former BigLaw firm, led by co-lead counsel Deborah Marcuse.
Plaintiffs in $70 million Title IX class action lawsuit against Dartmouth describe 'systemic' sexual harassment
(Good Morning America, November 16, 2018)
Deborah served as lead class counsel representing seven women scientists who filed a lawsuit against the Ivy League university alleging a culture of pervasive gender discrimination.
Yale Law Community Fed Up With Unswerving Fixation On Social Climbing That Defines Yale Law
(Above the Law, July 11, 2018)
“Yet the press release’s focus on the nominee’s professionalism, pedigree, and service to Yale Law School obscures the true stakes of his nomination and raises a disturbing question: Is there nothing more important to Yale Law School than its proximity to power and prestige?”
8 next steps to take if you’ve been sexually harassed at work
(Dayton Daily News, January 2, 2018)
Deborah explains why employees shouldn’t expect an advocate when they go to Human Resources at their employers.
Jail employees claim harassment, threats for not working overtime
(WPXI, November 2, 2017)
Along with co-counsel Margaret Coleman, Deborah filed suit on behalf of prison employees in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania who alleged that their need for family and medical leave was unlawfully taken as a “negative factor” leading to adverse action against them by their employer.
She Reported Harassment to HR — But She Didn't Get Any Help
(Cosmopolitan, November 1, 2017)
Deborah and her clients discuss how Human Resources can make a bad situation worse when workplace discrimination is at issue.
What To Do If You're Harassed At Work — And HR Isn't Helping
(Cosmopolitan, November 2, 2017}
Human resources is often the first stop for employees who experience harassment or discrimination at work, but HR reps work for your employer and don’t always have your best interests at heart.
Lawyering While Pregnant
(Shattering the Ceiling, July 11, 2014)
Pregnant at work? It’s hard even when the law is on your side.
Motherhood at center of Merck gender bias suit
(Fierce Pharma, May 10, 2013)
Yesterday, Merck ($MRK) became the most recent pharmaceutical company to be hit with a gender discrimination suit–an occurrence that’s become pretty common in the pharma world. But it wasn’t just that senior sales rep Kelli Smith felt overlooked in a man’s world. What compelled her to bring the suit, she claims, was the company’s blunt admittance that sales reps having babies was bad for business.
'Ban the box' ordinance promotes equal opportunities, public safety
(New Haven Register, March 5, 2009)
One Law Clinic, Two Cities
(Yale Law Report, Winter 2008)
When 32 residents of neighboring Fair Haven, Connecticut were detained in allegedly unlawful raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, student members of the Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization at New Haven’s Yale Law School sprang into action.