Chadbourne Lawyer Says She Was Pressured To Disavow Gender Bias Suit

Mary Yelenick, a Chadbourne & Parke lawyer who recently joined a gender discrimination suit against the firm, claims she and other female partners were pressured to sign a letter disavowing the lawsuit.

In a sworn declaration filed in Manhattan federal court on Thursday , Yelenick said Abbe Lowell, head of the firm’s litigation practice and a named defendant in the suit, called her after she declined to join with other female partners at the firm who signed such a letter last September. Yelenick did not say Lowell pressured her to sign the letter, but that he said he was aware of her decision not ...