An African American attorney now at Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker who claimed he suffered racial discrimination in his previous job at the New York City Law Department has settled with the city for $600,000.

Robert Gordon had alleged that his Law Department supervisors gave him overly harsh and unsubstantiated evaluations in his 12 years working in the Tort Division, and retaliated against him for suggesting improvements and for making complaints under federal civil rights law. He resigned in 2016 and took an of-counsel role at Wilson Elser.