Broadcom Corp. is trying to stamp out a gender discrimination suit brought by a female attorney who had been the company’s top in-house employment counsel. The complaint, filed in June, claims that the semiconductor company’s female employees were degraded by being compared to “kittens with balls of yarn,” and made to “sashay” down the aisle of a meeting while the men present whistled and laughed.
Then, just two weeks after the suit was filed in the Central District of California, a team of lawyers from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, led by partners Lynne Hermle and Joseph Liburt, filed simultaneous motions to dismiss and to compel arbitration. The lawyers also are fighting to keep some of the complaint’s juicier sections confidential—including apparent accusations of international fraud. The defense filings came three months after Hermle’s team defeated a similar sex bias case against venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in a high-profile San Francisco trial.
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