The Wal-Mart Case Could Have a Far-reaching Impact on Recruiters

Apr 4, 2011

This article is part of a series called Podcasts.

You may have read about the big case against Wal-Mart, where to sum it up, the Supreme Court will decide if a gender-discrimination lawsuit can be brought as a class action, one that’d involve more than a million women.

On the podcast below, Gerald L. Maatman, Jr. of Seyfarth Shaw LLP, talks about what this case could mean to recruiting departments when the Court’s verdict arrives. Mattman works out of the firm’s Chicago and New York offices; one of his specialties is defending employers sued in employment-related class actions.

This article is part of a series called Podcasts.

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