A Boston federal jury took just 2 1/2 hours on Wednesday to reject former associate John Ray III’s employment retaliation case against Ropes & Gray, which he’d accused of lashing out after he complained of racial discrimination.
The jury, which appeared to comprise four white men, three white women and one black man, concluded that Ray hadn’t filed his claim with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in good faith. Neither had be acted in good faith when he wrote to Harvard Law School dean Martha Minow accusing the firm of retaliation, the panel said.
