Assignment Task:
Joan has been working for 7 years at a law firm "Lawyers LLP" as a paralegal. Recently, she applied for a promotion to senior paralegal. She did not get the promotion. Instead, Chris, a male paralegal, who just started working for the firm and who has 4 years less experience than Joan was promoted. Joan overheard the senior partner who was responsible for the hiring decision saying "I much prefer working with men to women. There is so much less drama and everything gets done much more quickly". Assume for the purposes of drafting your issue statement that 42 U.S.C. §2000 e-2 applies (Title VII of the Civil Rights Act 1964). This law prohibits employment discrimination on the grounds of race, sex, national origin, colour and religion. The issue is whether Joan has a legitimate reason for discrimination against lawyers llp when she was not promoted based on sex preferences The legal question which arises under these facts is: