BigLaw Partner Files $20M Suit Claiming Rape By Bartender
The ABA Journal reports that a partner at a large international law firm in Houston has filed a $20 million suit claiming a bartender at Brennan’s of Houston spiked her drink with a drug and later raped her at her home.
The woman and her law firm are not identified in the lawsuit, according to the Journal‘s Debra Cassens Weiss. The suit names the bartender, Sean Kerrigan, and a restaurant manager who accompanied Kerrigan to the plaintiff’s home.
Kerrigan was criminally charged in July with raping the plaintiff and another woman in a later assault, but he died in November.
The plaintiff is in treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder, according to the lawsuit.
