Harassment Debacle Deepens at DLA Piper as Lawyer Reveals Emails

Just after Vanina Guerrero joined one of the world’s biggest law firms, she received a late-night email from the star partner who ran her new team at DLA Piper.

“You are helping me reach people I couldn’t before,” Louis Lehot, who helped lead her Silicon Valley office, wrote. Guerrero told him he was “vibrating even higher than before.” According to copies of correspondence Lehot shared with Bloomberg, he wrote her back that week: “Feel the vibrations? The whole organization is working for you.”

One year later, both partners are gone from the firm, though exactly what happened between ...