As a leader of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton’s restructuring and insolvency group, James Bromley is best known for counseling big-money debtors and creditors. But June saw him in New Jersey state court, part of the trial team in an unusual consumer fraud case.
The plaintiffs were five gay men who had signed up for so-called conversion therapy from a religious nonprofit, hoping to “cure” their homosexuality. According to the suit, the program required participants to strip nude during sessions, intimately hold other males, beat effigies of their mothers with a tennis racket, and listen to gay slurs.
