The federal gender bias class action suit against Jones Day is slowly accumulating more named plaintiffs as former associates opt in to claims asserting systematic pay disparities.

After six plaintiffs, two named and four proceeding anonymously, detailed what they alleged to be a frat-house environment at the law firm and a compensation system that undervalues women, additional former associates are attaching their names to the action.

An attorney for Amazon's television production arm on Friday followed a Facebook product counsel in joining the collective action component of the suit, which asserts that Jones Day violated the Equal Pay Act by paying female attorneys less than male attorneys.

Unlike the two named plaintiffs and two of the anonymous plaintiffs behind the April complaint, Katrina Henderson did not practice in Jones Day's California offices. According to her LinkedIn profile and state bar records, she was an associate at the firm's New York office from October 2013 to July 2016 before joining Pixar Animation Studios in August 2016. Earlier this month, she moved from Pixar to Amazon Studios in Santa Monica, California.

Earlier in June, current Facebook product counsel Jessica Jardine Wilkes became the first former associate to opt in to the proposed Equal Pay Act collective action. Hundreds of former and current female associates across the firm could ultimately elect to opt in.

Lawyers at Sanford Heisler and Jones Day argued in Washington, D.C., federal district court last month over whether the unidentified women should be able to keep their anonymity in advance of any trial. In a more recent filing, one of the Jane Doe plaintiffs, noting she was up against one of the most powerful law firms in the world, analogized her position to that of a whistleblower.

The proposed class action seeks as much as $200 million from Jones Day for what the plaintiffs allege was systematic discrimination against women attorneys. Jones Day has countered that it has a strong record of advancing women's careers, calling the lawsuit meritless.

An attorney at Sanford Heisler declined to comment Friday.

A separate gender bias suit against Jones Day recently came to an end, as a spokesman for the firm said Monday that former partner Wendy Moore had dropped all claims against the firm in exchange for the return of her capital contribution.

Note: This story has been updated to clarify that two former associates have opted in to a proposed Equal Pay Act collective action, not come forward as named plaintiffs in the proposed federal class action component of the Jones Day case. 

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