A former legal secretary in the Washington office of Latham & Watkins is suing the firm for alleged pregnancy-related discrimination and unlawful termination, claiming she was subjected to "outrageous, misogynistic attitude, behavior, and treatment of a woman that shocks the conscience."
According to the complaint, filed Monday morning in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Demetria Peart was hired as a legal secretary at Latham in April 2007. She learned she was pregnant in October 2007 and said that after she took short-term disability leave due to "extreme medical complications" related to her pregnancy, she was fired in late January 2008.
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