University of Denver Law Settles Another Pay Discrimination Suit by Female Faculty

Associate law professor Rashmi Goel, who claimed in court that she earns $30,000 less than male colleagues, will get a pay boost as part of a settlement with the University of Denver Sturm College of Law.

January 09, 2020 at 01:43 PM

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The University of Denver Sturm College of Law has agreed to increase the compensation of an associate professor who sued in June, claiming she was underpaid compared with her male and nonminority faculty colleagues, the professor's lawyer said Thursday.

The university is boosting plaintiff Rashmi Goel's annual pay; giving her an annual stipend for her work with the law school's Rocky Mountain Collective on Race, Place & Law; compensating her for back pay and emotional distress; and paying her attorney fees, said Goel's attorney, Charlotte Sweeney of the Denver firm Sweeney & Bechtold.

"I think it's a great resolution for her," said Sweeney following the Jan. 2 dismissal of the suit. "It gets her to a salary she should have been at anyway and it compensates her for the loss of salary over a period of years. Also, it recognizes that she's doing additional work, far and above many of her colleagues, on this additional project and deserved compensation for it."

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