Civil-rights lawyer Cyrus Mehri has fought some of the most significant workplace race-discrimination lawsuits in U.S. history, winning a $176 million settlement with Texaco in 1996 and a $192.5 ...

With legal tenacity, business diplomacy, and media savvy, Cyrus Mehri has tackled racial discrimination at some of America’s best-known organizations, from Texaco to the NFL. He has won huge ...

Mehri seems to think it is, and he has opted to place direct, public pressure on the men he would eventually serve, if he should ever get the job. “I am very disappointed that you have decided not to ...

If Cyrus Mehri gets the job, he vows to get quickly to work. He’ll have little choice. In the press release issued after HBO televised the announcement of Mehri’s candidacy to take the reins of the ...

Cyrus Mehri is a founding partner of D.C.-based Mehri & Skalet PLLC and author of the study that led to the NFL’s “Rooney Rule,” which requires the league’s teams interview minority ...