A former Polsinelli PC partner who says senior attorneys sexually harassed her urged a federal judge not to grant the firm’s request to have the case thrown out or sent to private arbitration.
The dismissal motion Polsinelli and one of the alleged harassers, Gabriel Dabiri, filed is a “desperate bid” to avoid local human rights laws and “public scrutiny” of Julia Rix’s claims of sexual harassment and retaliation, according to the opposition she filed in the US District Court for the District of Columbia.
Rix joined the firm’s Washington office in 2021 and lost her job two years later. She ...
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