A former assistant to the co-founder of a Westport law firm has sued the firm, claiming she wasn’t paid overtime wages and was fired unexpectedly eight weeks before her defined benefit plan vested.
In her eight-page lawsuit filed Monday in U.S. District Court, Kathleen Russell states her earlier contributions in the benefit plan at Broder & Orland “would have vested at 60 percent.” The lawsuit contends that firing Russell last November “allowed Broder to increase its senior partners’ contributions into the defined benefit plan without having to pay Russell the same benefits.”
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