A New York state appeals court on Tuesday revived breach-of-contract claims from a former Napoli Bern Ripka Shkolnik attorney, who filed a $1 million gender discrimination lawsuit against the dissolving firm and co-founder Paul Napoli in 2015.
A four-judge panel of the Appellate Division, First Department ruled that Denise Rubin, a former general and appellate counsel at Napoli Bern, could proceed with allegations that her former employer had failed to live up to its verbal promises to pay her 5% of the firm’s net attorney fees in cases in which she was “materially involved.”
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