Posted on 01/11/2025 12:20:14 AM PST by Libloather
WASHINGTON — Democrats are buzzing about powerful party-linked attorney Marc Elias springing a mandatory arbitration clause on employees of his law firm — with insiders speculating about whether the firm has something to hide and accusing Elias of hypocritically limiting worker rights.
New York native Elias, 55, made headlines with his work on Hillary Clinton’s procurement of a dossier full of salacious gossip about then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in 2016 — and his eponymous law firm, which he founded in 2021 and has dozens of employees, works primarily on behalf of Democrats and progressive causes.
The Elias Law Group’s new policy, which drew an internal protest letter from 42 subordinates, prevents employees from suing and includes a class-action waiver and non-disclosure agreement, according to the legal news website Above the Law, which first reported on the move.
“All, as a condition of employment…[Elias Law Group] is implementing an arbitration agreement that applies to all employees. The agreement implements an alternative to litigation for resolving employment-related disputes,” chief operating officer Jacqui Newman wrote on Dec. 19.
“Arbitration offers a confidential and cost-effective way to address issues, ensuring that both employees and the Firm resolve matters fairly and efficiently. You will receive the agreement from HR with your 2025 compensation memo by the end of this week. All employees are required to review and sign the agreement by December 30, 2024,” Newman wrote.
The ensuing protest letter, also published by Above the Law, decried the “sudden, unexplained reversal of policy” and objected to the changes being issued “with no notice and little explanation."
**SNIP**
Days after the announcement, Elias mysteriously purged his once-vociferous X account — stoking further intrigue.
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“whether the firm has something to hide”
NY?
That’s a given.
too bad for him. looks like he missed at least half of his 81 million 2020 fake votes this time. no mas you stinker elias.
At the same time go after ALL leftist foundations; Carnegie, Heinz, MacArthur etc. Destroy ALL of them and also investigate and lawfare to death as many leftist NGOs and "think tanks" as time and resources permit.
Afterwards, salt the earth to the point that any leftist scumbag looking to replace traditional Western/Judeo-Chrisitan values with leftist-commie crap will think thrice before trying to push sick, anti-human,racist. destructive, criminal, perverse garbage into the fabric of our societies.
Precisely. I despise and loathe him.
Marc Elias, Reid Hoffman, Merrick Garland…..
You forgot Norm Eisen.
The four horsemen of the Big Steal.
Good post
Marc Elias( over 60 lawsuits attacking voter ID laws)Judge Kaplan, Judge Engoron, Merrick Garland, Judge Beryl Howell, Shenna Bellows (Maine Secretary of State) , Jena Griswold (Colorado Secretary of State), George Soros, Reid Hoffman (financial support for E Jean Carroll), Jamie Raskin and Debbie Wasserman- Schultz( co-sponsored legislation to kick Trump off the ballot), Judge David Ezra (stayed Texas law that permitted the arrest of illegals ), Alejando Mayorkas, Norm Eisen.
Just remember, you’re not supposed to Notice.
Without additional “consideration” the new terms and requirements may be unenforceable in contract law. Being allowed to continue in your same job does not equal consideration.
Interesting point. That may or may not be true. He should pay out a $500 bonus to people willing to sign.
They don’t come any dirtier than this guy, Elias.
I can well imagine that his employees could have a wealth of incriminating information on him that he would like to keep hidden in arbitration rather than see the light of day in litigation.
One of the best ways to go after these organizations is simply to stop funding them. Fedzilla funds these NGOs, which then turn around and do things that wreck the economy. They would do nowhere near the damage they do without federal funding.
I suspect as a lay person that arbitration doesn’t apply to protected class law.
There’s always the possibility of a leak of damaging information.
This seems to me the perfect way to guarantee that you have only mediocre employees.
“The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of choosing Senators.”
Article I, SECTION 4
“Not until 1842, when it passed a law requiring the election of Representatives by districts, did Congress undertake to exercise this power. In subsequent years, Congress expanded on the requirements, successively adding contiguity, compactness, and substantial equality of population to the districting requirements. However, no challenge to the seating of Members-elect selected in violation of these requirements was ever successful,3 and Congress deleted the standards from the 1929 Apportionment Act.”
“Under the Enforcement Act of 1870, and subsequent laws, false registration, bribery, voting without legal right, making false returns of votes cast, interference in any manner with officers of election, and the neglect by any such officer of any duty required of him by state or federal law were made federal offenses. Provision was made for the appointment by federal judges of persons to attend at places of registration and at elections with authority to challenge any person proposing to register or vote unlawfully, to witness the counting of votes, and to identify by their signatures the registration of voters and election tally sheets. When the Democratic Party regained control of Congress, these pieces of Reconstruction legislation dealing specifically with elections were repealed.”
Congress...may, in short, use its power under this clause, combined with the Necessary and Proper Clause, to regulate the times, places, and manner of electing Members of Congress so as to fully safeguard the integrity of the process; it may not, however, under this clause, provide different qualifications for electors than those provided by the states.”
“’The Framers understood the Elections Clause as a grant of authority to issue procedural regulations, and not as a source of power to dictate electoral outcomes, to favor or disfavor a class of candidates, or to evade important constitutional restraints.’”
case citations and more at:
https://constitution.findlaw.com/article1/annotation18.html
Job 1:
Levy a value added tax on corporations of an annually determined sufficient percentage to balance the budget and pay off the debt by 2058.
Job 2:
Try to send constitutional amendments to the states capping middle class income and property taxation.
Job 3:
Try to send constitutional amendment to end federal taxation of individuals effective 2058.
I hope he didn’t record the non disclosure agreement work as a legal expense. It is NY.
EC
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