Two months after Chadbourne & Parke was hit with a $100 million gender discrimination suit, the New York-based firm delivered its response Thursday evening to an amended complaint filed last month by two former female partners.
In its 62-page retort, Chadbourne lashed out at Kerrie Campbell, a lateral litigator hired by the firm in January 2014, calling her a dishonest partner who failed to live up to her promises to the firm and embarrassed it before clients. Campbell, who fired the first salvo against Chadbourne with her bombshell complaint on Aug. 31, claimed in court papers to have filed her case on behalf of 26 current and former female partners. In October, former Kiev office managing partner Jaroslawa Zelinsky Johnson joined Campbell as a name plaintiff in the case.
