Two former female lawyers at Louisiana State University's Health Sciences Center in New Orleans have sued the school and three administrators, including the general counsel, over gender discrimination and retaliation claims.

The plaintiffs include Katherine Muslow, who worked as university in-house counsel for 16 years and served as the Health Science Center's general counsel until last year; and Meredith Cunningham, who worked as a part-time in-house counsel under Muslow.

The suit alleges, “LSU (New Orleans), in particular its Office of the Chancellor, has engaged in a years-long pattern and practice of discriminating against women employees, which includes compensating women at rates lower than men working in positions that require the same or substantially equal skill, effort, and responsibility.”