Biglaw Firm Settles Racial Discrimination Lawsuit That Alleged Attorney Called Assistant ‘Our Slave’
Above the Law reports that the Biglaw firm of Drinker Biddle & Reath has settled a racial discrimination case filed against them earlier this year. In that case, Syneetra Hill, an African-American legal assistant in their Princeton office, alleged pay discrimination and that she was subjected to a hostile work environment and retaliation.
Editor Kathryn Rubino writes that Hill’s lawsuit alleges several problematic examples of the work environment, including a former supervising attorney who kept a collection of Confederate memorabilia throughout the office, and an of counsel who referred to Hill as “our slave” in front of a client.
Read the Above the Law article.
