A former DLA Piper intellectual property senior associate is suing the law firm for allegedly discriminating against her by terminating her contract six days after she submitted a maternity leave request.
Anisha Mehta earned three pay raises, a six-figure bonus, and didn’t receive negative feedback within the year before the firm fired her in October 2022 “for her alleged poor performance,” she alleged in a complaint filed Tuesday in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York.
At the time Mehta was fired, the firm was getting pressure from clients over billing rates, but told her she ...
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