Troutman Pepper Says Black Lawyer Lacks Bias, Reprisal Evidence

Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP says a Black associate should be denied a bias trial because she lacks evidence she was discriminated against based on race or fired in retaliation for complaining.

The former employee’s discrimination allegations are “based on three sets of factual allegations involving three different sets of actors at three different time periods,” the firm said seeking summary judgment. But a jury couldn’t reasonably find that a partner discriminated by “‘stealing her hours’” during the first time-frame, four comments a different partner made during the middle period were all “facially neutral and work-related” and couldn’t have ...