Oct. 21 (Bloomberg) — The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is investigating whether mandatory retirement provisions at Deloitte LLP violate federal employment law.

The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the trade association for the profession, entered the fray yesterday, essentially urging the EEOC to back off.

The dust-up could have ramifications for those law firms, including slightly less than half of the largest ones, that still have mandatory retirement ages for their partners.

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