A $3,000 personal payment, a 48-hour ultimatum and internal billing complaints, the filing says
A senior lawyer says his firm moved the partnership goalposts after he survived a heart attack and took medical leave.
Those allegations are set out in a complaint filed on August 18, 2026 in the US District Court for the District of New Jersey against Troutman Pepper Locke LLP and two of its partners. The lawyer brings claims under the federal Family and Medical Leave Act, along with two New Jersey statutes covering disability discrimination and whistleblower retaliation.
According to the filing, he joined the firm's Princeton office in April 2018, when it operated under a predecessor name. The complaint says that before his heart attack he received bonuses in every year of his employment, was appointed to the firm's associate liaison committee, and was appointed by the New Jersey Supreme Court to a district ethics committee. It alleges a partner told him that if he performed well on a Federal Trade Commission investigation response, he would make partner.
The complaint alleges that on or around November 6, 2023, while working alone late at night in the Princeton office, he suffered a heart attack. It describes the event as a ST-elevation myocardial infarction, known as a “widow-maker,” with “only a 10% chance of survival.” According to the filing, he reached home and was taken to hospital, where his heart stopped later that night and he required emergency resuscitation and...
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