Kisshia Simmons-Grant, who is black, alleges that her supervisor, a managing staff attorney, routinely assigned more work to white staff attorneys than to her even though she was comparably qualified. The result, she alleges, was several periods during which she had no work and therefore no income.
November 01, 2011 at 12:00 AM
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A former Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan staff attorney claims the firm discriminated against her because of her race and then gave her no choice but to quit after she complained.
In her complaint [PDF], filed Friday in federal district court in Manhattan, plaintiff Kisshia Simmons-Grant seeks unspecified compensatory and punitive damages to cover what she alleges are past and future lost earnings and mental anguish she claims to have suffered as a result of the firm’s treatment.
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