Long Island Law Firm Can’t Shake Ex-Assistant’s Title VII Claims

A Long Island law firm must participate in discovery over whether two attorneys count as employees under Title VII after a federal judge said there were sufficient genuine disputes of material fact to deny summary judgment to the firm in a legal assistant’s sexual harassment suit.

Title VII applies to employers who maintain 15 employees “for each working day in each of twenty or more calendar weeks in the current or preceding year.” The Law Offices of Frederick K. Brewington asserted that attorneys Oscar Holt III and Steven Tannenbaum were volunteers who worked as “of counsel” to the firm and ...