CC New York facing $75m race discrimination suit
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Magic circle Clifford Chance is a gearbox up to a maximum of racial discrimination complaint against him in New York. Former collaborators Caroline Memnon, Haiti, the company is verklagend for $ 75m (£ 37.5m), and who claim that, because of their skin colour, it has never a good job, despite the receipt of Containing 125000 dollars. In a suit in New York Southern District Court, Memnon, it is claimed that the company uses as decoration windows because of their race, for the fire who complain, then it blacklisted in the New York law. She says that Clifford Chance, then known as Clifford Chance Rogers & Wells, the fire in the year 2002 when they were illegally banned from the legal community in New York. According to the complaint, offered Memnon recruits Chad Bourne & Parks and Manatt Phelps & Phillips, only for bids, in order to be withdrawn later. Memnon said that by the end of 2006, she had immediately small businesses in their efforts to find work, in faith, they have less contact with Clifford Chance. It was Sullivan & Worcester’s New York office in February 2007 with the sole purpose of their contracts terminated next month. Sullivan & Worcester is named as co-defendant in the case. A spokesman Clifford Chance said the company believes that the claim is without merit and against him. Sullivan & Worcester not to comment on pending litigation. The lawyer in the past year reported that Clifford Chance is a sexual orientation appeal of the former competition partner Michael Bryce countries (August 20, 2007). The application was filed in November 2006, but it was last April, before proceeding to a full hearing. |