A former Steptoe & Johnson associate urged a Los Angeles federal court not to send a proposed class action into private arbitration, arguing that case law should prevent the firm from burying her gender bias allegations in a secret proceeding.
Lawyers for former Steptoe associate Ji-In Houck—a 2011 Georgetown University Law Center graduate now working as a litigator at the Stalwart Law Group in Los Angeles—filed a brief on Monday opposing Steptoe’s motion to compel arbitration of Houck’s gender bias allegations.
