In 2007, two years after Patricia Martone’s former firm Fish & Neave merged with Ropes & Gray, firm chair R. Bradford Malt asked her to lead the combined firm’s first foreign outpost. The anchor client for the Tokyo office was supposed to be Martone’s client, Sanyo Electric Co., as well as a few other Japanese clients Martone had cultivated.
But the relationship between Ropes and Martone soured soon after, culminating in her separation from the firm in October. On March 22 Martone filed a discrimination complaint in federal district court in Manhattan. Martone, a New York IP partner, claims that Ropes stripped her of her business, handing off her client to younger male partners.
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