Ropes & Gray wrote negative reviews of work done by former associate John Ray III years after the fact to justify forcing him out, a lawyer for Ray argued last week during a hearing in his discrimination case against the firm.

“No other associate considered for partner was subjected to being criticized over and over again for things that happened years ago,” Latif Doman of Washington's Doman Davis argued during a two-hour hearing on Tuesday before U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns in Boston.