Inside the Delaware ruling every HR leader at high-growth firms must read
A Delaware court has kept a major workplace misconduct case against eXp Realty alive, putting alleged sexual violence, culture failure and board inaction under sharp scrutiny.
On January 16, 2026, the Delaware Court of Chancery refused to dismiss most of a shareholder lawsuit against eXp World Holdings, the parent of eXp Realty. The suit claims top eXp agents drugged and sexually assaulted women at company events and that senior leaders did not respond appropriately when those reports reached them. The court has not decided whether the allegations are true; it held only that they are detailed and serious enough to move forward.
According to the court’s summary of the shareholder’s filing in Los Angeles City Employees’ Retirement System v. Sanford, influential agents Michael Bjorkman and David Golden allegedly spent years drugging and raping female agents and recruits at eXp events and recruitment trips, with other agents sometimes participating in or aware of the conduct. Women reportedly described being given drinks, becoming extremely ill or incapacitated, and later learning of sexually explicit videos or comments suggesting they had been assaulted. In September 2020, an eXp agent posted on Facebook that she had been drugged at an August 2020 recruitment event in Las Vegas; other women commented that they too had been drugged and sexually assaulted at eXp events.
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