After months of delays, a former staff attorney’s racial discrimination suit against Covington & Burling is moving forward. In new filings, Yolanda Young’s lawyer, Latif Doman of Washington, D.C.-based Doman Davis, said his client was discriminated against during Covington’s job-assignment process. Mr. Doman also said that Ms. Young’s claims are not time-barred, as Covington has contended, because she underwent an evaluation within the statute of limitations for the claim.
Last week, Covington, which is being represented by Michele Roberts, a partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, asked Judge Reggie Walton of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to grant their request for summary judgment. The firm said Ms. Young has failed to show that she was personally injured by the firm’s job assignment policy, or that her claim is not too old to be heard in court.
