A University of California Los Angeles linguistics professor who was ordered to pay $80,000 in attorneys’ fees to Seyfarth Shaw in her dropped malpractice action was denied California Supreme Court review of her case.
The justices refused to review an appellate ruling ordering Natalie Operstein and her husband Craig Ross to pay the full legal fees the firm incurred in defending the lawsuit against itself and one of its former partners.
Operstein suedin 2020, seeking $24 million in damages over the firm’s investigation of her discrimination and harassment complaints against California State University at Fullerton. CSU Fullerton denied Operstein ...
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