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The former top marketing official at beleaguered CKR Law has accused the firm's lawyers of repeatedly making hostile comments about her same-sex relationship, in a new discrimination suit against the firm.

Catherine Acosta also claims the managing partner, Jeffrey Rinde, retaliated against her after she informed her assistant that security cameras caught Rinde and the assistant kissing in an elevator.

Acosta, a former CKR marketing director, said in a suit filed Wednesday in Manhattan Supreme Court against Rinde and the firm that she was fired in January after a series of discriminatory comments by people at the firm.

One male lawyer asked “if she was done with men forever, or if he could do anything to change her mind,” her lawsuit claims, while another lawyer hit on her, commented on her headshot and asked if she had “less professional pictures to share.”

After her same-sex wedding in July, Acosta said, a female partner would continuously sit on “Acosta's desk wearing skirts with the intention to discuss plaintiff Acosta's homosexual lifestyle.” One male partner said he officiated weddings, but not of “that nature,” her suit claims.

Acosta said Rinde, the managing partner, let her work from home starting in October because the comments and actions of the firm's lawyers, as well as her commute from New Jersey, made her anxiety worse.

But after Acosta told her assistant that security footage showed that the assistant had been “kissing” Rinde in an office elevator, Rinde began ignoring Acosta's emails and in November insisted that Acosta start working more hours in the office, her lawsuit claims.

“Acosta reluctantly agreed to increase her time in the office based on defendant Rinde agreeing to provide her with an office sufficiently removed from the attorneys who had previously created the hostile working environment,” Acosta's complaint said. The following day, however, Acosta said she learned that CKR's human resources manager “was openly discussing plaintiff Acosta's disabling medical condition.”

The suit alleges that Acosta told Rinde that her privacy rights were violated and she couldn't work in the office, but said she never got a response from Rinde. When December rolled around, she didn't get a performance review or bonus that others received, and on Jan. 18 she was fired, “allegedly due to her inability to work in the New York City office,” the suit said.

To add insult to injury, Acosta claims, her assistant, the one allegedly seen kissing Rinde, was promoted to fill her position “and, shortly thereafter, permitted … to work from home.”

The suit marks more unfavorable publicity for CKR, which has seen a series of lawyer exits after it struggled to pay partner draws.

ALM reported earlier this year that many partners weren't paid their draws for several months or weren't paid the amounts they were owed under their contracts. Dozens of lawyers appear to have left the firm, including a bankruptcy team described by sources as a key part of the firm's business. CKR has insisted that its financial situation won't be hurt by the departures and has said its cash flow situation is improving.

Acosta's suit includes claims under the New York City Human Rights Law for a hostile work environment and failure to accommodate a disability. She seeks compensatory and punitive damages but her lawsuit did not provide a dollar amount.

Rinde and other senior partners at his firm did not respond to a comment request about the lawsuit.

Peter Heck, Acosta's lawyer at the firm of Niedweske Barber, also did not respond to inquiries.