Word: bernabei
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...Jones' team has not effectively disputed this. She alleges on-the-job insults--not getting flowers on Secretary's Day, being moved to a desk closer to her boss--but the slights "don't rise to the level of an adverse action under the law," says Lynne Bernabei, a respected employment-rights litigator in Washington. "The guy may have acted boorishly, but that's not sexual harassment. The law is not there to control behavior, it's there to protect people in their jobs...
Even if a jury finds that Jones suffered adverse job consequences, "she's got a big hole in her case," says Bernabei. "She still has not shown any connection between what happened to her [on the job] and Clinton." Nowhere in the record do any people in Jones' office say they knew of her encounter with Clinton or did anything to her because Clinton or an agent of his told them to. Jones' lawyers concede as much in the filing, which concludes only that "a jury could reasonably draw the inference that Mr. Clinton caused Plaintiff to suffer adverse employment...
...high-minded chat masks discord at the Washington-based radio network, which in the past few years has been hit with a series of racial- and sexual-discrimination lawsuits. "They've got a free ride over the years because they have this public image of being diverse," says Lynne Bernabei, whose law firm has represented 14 NPR clients. But NPR president Delano Lewis, one of the network's few high-ranking blacks, while acknowledging that there are problems, insists that "this place is no different from any other [work]place...