Law firm King & Spalding has requested a U.S. judge in Maryland to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Sarah Spitalnick, a white female lawyer, who accused the firm of bias over a job program aimed at promoting diversity for early-career attorneys. The firm argued that the program was not discriminatory and that Spitalnick cannot claim she was unlawfully excluded because she never applied. King & Spalding described the lawsuit as 'misguided'.