{"id":2601,"date":"2024-09-13T23:29:52","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T23:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/ex-kirkland-associate-advances-suit-against-firm-as-gender-bias-claims-multiply-in-big-law\/"},"modified":"2024-09-13T23:29:52","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T23:29:52","slug":"ex-kirkland-associate-advances-suit-against-firm-as-gender-bias-claims-multiply-in-big-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/ex-kirkland-associate-advances-suit-against-firm-as-gender-bias-claims-multiply-in-big-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Kirkland Associate Advances Suit Against Firm, as Gender Bias Claims Multiply in Big Law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>Most of the claims brought by former Kirkland &amp; Ellis associate Zoya Kovalenko against her former firm have survived a motion to dismiss, per a court order earlier this week that set the stage for a legal battle over whether Kirkland fired Kovalenko in retaliation for complaining about sex-based discrimination at the firm.<\/p>\n<p>Kovalenko sued Kirkland in October 2022, alleging that she both experienced and observed sex-based discrimination within the IP litigation group that led to a substantially higher turnover rate for female associates. Kovalenko was terminated in 2021\u2014an act of retaliation, her complaint alleged\u2014and initially represented herself before retaining Tanvir Rahman of Filippatos PLLC.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the claims brought by former Kirkland &amp; Ellis associate Zoya Kovalenko against her former firm have survived a motion to dismiss, per a court order earlier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3426,3425,2344,434,300,3424,184,2149,153,3427,339],"class_list":["post-2601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-advances","tag-associate","tag-bias","tag-big","tag-claims","tag-exkirkland","tag-firm","tag-gender","tag-law","tag-multiply","tag-suit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}