Linda Friedman was rooting out sexual harassment decades before a series of allegations brought by women against Harvey Weinstein and others ushered in the #MeToo era.

In the mid-1990s, Friedman became known as a go-to plaintiffs lawyer when she represented a group of women who filed what became known as the “boom-boom room” suit against Smith Barney. The litigation got its nickname because of a basement party room at the brokerage’s branch office in Garden City, New York.