DLA Piper Says Associate Fired Over Performance, Not Pregnancy

DLA Piper LLP says a former senior associate was fired for “a series of increasingly catastrophic blunders” and her lawsuit should be dismissed because she can’t prove her pregnancy bias, leave interference, and retaliation claims.

The intellectual property attorney also shouldn’t get a trial because she “regularly turned in sloppy work product” even though she was a seventh-year associate, the international law firm said Tuesday in seeking summary judgment in the case. The two Intellectual Property and Trademark Group partners with whom she most regularly worked quickly grew disappointed with her abilities and concluded that she wasn’t capable of meeting ...