A state appellate court has reinstated a lawsuit brought by a woman who claims that her New York attorney sexually harassed and discriminated against her when she was his potential client.

In the now-reinstated suit, the woman alleges that the lawyer, Robert P. Santoriella, used a civil lawsuit for rape she had lodged against her ex-boyfriend as a means of demanding explicit pictures and recordings from her, making unwanted sexual advances to her, sending her his own sexually explicit photos, and making the trauma she suffered from the alleged rape even worse. (The Law Journal does not name victims of sexual assault.)