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Share this article Share this article SEATTLE, April 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Milberg Coleman Bryson Phillips Grossman ( Milberg ) received a $11.1 million verdict today on behalf of client Scott Kingston who alleged IBM wrongfully terminated him after raising claims of racial bias in the treatment of his subordinates. Milberg attorneys Matthew E. Lee and Jeremy Williams, and Brittany Glass and Toby Marshall of Terrell Marshall Law Group PLLC represented Mr. Kingston in a Zoom jury trial held in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. At the end of the third sales quarter in 2017, IBM sales manager Scott Kingston noticed a stark discrepancy between the commissions of two of his subordinates: Jerome Beard, a black salesman, and Nick Donato, a white salesman. While Mr. Donato received more than $1 million in uncapped commissions for a closed deal with SAS Institute, Mr. Beard s commissions for a successful sale to HCL Technologies were slashed fr ....
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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – IBM is headed to the courtroom via Zoom for a remote trial on April 5, 2021 as the defendant. The case, Scott Kingston vs. International Business Machines Corp., case number 2:19-cv-01488, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, moves to trial after Judge Marsha Pechman denied IBM’s motion for a summary judgment on all of Kingston’s claims, on March 1. Kingston alleges he was terminated by IBM in retaliation for protesting IBM’s decision to cap the commission of a Black employee on a large deal weeks after the company paid a white employee in full on a similarly sized deal. ....
Sunday marked the start of the 2017 North American International Auto Show here in Detroit. Nick Donato, one of Benzinga s own news desk analysts, was on the floor for the first press day of the show. Donato stopped in on Tuesday s episode of the PreMarket Prep morning show to discuss the. Read More. ....