Two months after celebrating his 90th birthday, Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens retired in June 2010. Had he worked for one of the many large law firms whose attorneys argue before the Supreme Court, Justice Stevens might have been pushed into retirement decades earlier.
Mandatory Retirement in Law Firms and Other Partnerships
Unlike the bona fide occupational exception to the ADEA, the permissibility of mandatory retirement ages for partners in law firms depends upon the position that partners are not employees for the purposes of federal anti-discrimination law.
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