DLA Piper Wins Discovery Row in Attorney’s Pregnancy Bias Suit

DLA Piper LLP convinced a federal magistrate judge Tuesday it had adequately responded to a request by a former senior associate suing for alleged pregnancy discrimination for records relating to similar claims previously made by other employees.

The “demand letters” from two former employees have been produced and “are the only complaints at issue,” though it’s unclear that they even qualify as complaints, DLA Piper’s counsel Molly T. Senger of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP told the US District Court for the Southern District of New York during a status conference.

Those two employees never complained about discrimination while they ...