DLA Piper Must Reveal Pregnancy Bias Complaints in Lawyer’s Suit

DLA Piper LLP must turn over “demand letters” and other documents relating to prior pregnancy discrimination claims by other employees to a former senior associate suing the law firm for allegedly firing her after she sought maternity leave.

The law firm’s argument that the former intellectual property attorney needed to make a heightened showing to be entitled to the discovery was misplaced, US District Court for the Southern District of New York Magistrate Judge Robyn F. Tarnofsky said May 24.

The case DLA Piper relied on didn’t apply, because it involved “communications between parties during a private mediation,” she said. ...