Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson has responded to a former associate’s $50 million federal discrimination suit accusing the firm of denying her partnership because she is gay, ignoring her complaints about sexual harassment by a litigation partner, and instructing lawyers to write exaggerated negative performance reviews of unpopular associates. Julie Kamps, a Harvard Law School graduate who worked at Fried Frank for a decade before the firm allegedly terminated her during the middle of an arbitration in January 2009, filed suit in the Southern District in December. In its response filed late last month, Fried Frank denied Ms. Kamps’ allegations and argued she failed to state a valid claim, failed to seek other remedies and missed the statute of limitations deadline.
Fried Frank also provided a different account of an internal review it launched following a complaint made to the firm by Ms. Kamps in August 2007. Ms. Kamps said in her suit that after she learned she would not make partner she complained internally about mistreatment and the firm launched an internal investigation of her. Fried Frank in its answer denied the claim, but instead said a probe was launched after Ms. Kamps complained that the firm “was spying on her and having people follow her.”
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