Walmart should have listened to it's outside counsel

Legal documents leaked to the New York Times recently indicate that lawyers advised Wal-Mart that they faced potential sex discrimination liability as early as 1993. While Wal-Mart calls these papers “flawed” and “stale,” as with all communication the question isn’t a matter of what the papers said, but how the recipient reacted.

Law firm Akin Gump informed company officials that Wal-Mart faced liability between $185M and $740M for sex discrimination suits in 1993 alone. Seventeen years later, lawyers on behalf of women bringing a class action discrimination suit against Wal-Mart hope to subpoena these warning documents as proof that Wal-Mart had notice that its gender practices are not well-received among employees.