Ex-Secretary Accuses Quinn Emanuel of Racial Discrimination
A former floating secretary who left the elite trial firm in 2015 claims he was subjected to racial slurs by a trial logistics director during the high-profile 2014 patent trial of Apple v. Samsung.
July 19, 2017 at 04:03 PM
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Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan is facing a complaint filed Wednesday in a Manhattan federal court by a former secretary accusing the elite trial firm of racial discrimination and retaliation.
Spencer Marin, a former floating secretary who left Quinn Emanuel in 2015, claims that he was subjected to racial slurs by a trial logistics director during the high-profile 2014 Apple v. Samsung patent trial. Marin, who is black, also claims his work was more harshly scrutinized than other secretaries and that he was passed up for a promotion after he raised alarms about a co-worker's behavior.
“The website of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP boasts that 'there is no firm like ours,'” according to Marin's complaint. “That certainly appears to be the case with respect to its total apathy to the plight of its African-American staff.”
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