Foley & Lardner rescinded an employment offer for an incoming associate over public comments she made following the Hamas attack on Israel, the law firm said Thursday.
The Milwaukee-founded firm pulled the offer for Jinan Chehade, a 2023 Georgetown Law School graduate, just before her intended October start date, a Foley spokesperson said, citing “public statements that were inconsistent with our core values.” Following “a discussion with Ms. Chehade, we made the decision to rescind her offer of employment,” the firm spokesperson said.
An earlier version of the firm’s statement said that Chehade made public statements “condoning the horrendous attacks by Hamas.” Foley did not identify the public statements it found problematic.
The decision has prompted legal action from Chehade, who on Nov. 13 filed a charge of discrimination with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. She’s accusing the firm of illegal retaliation and discrimination on the basis of her nationality and religion, her lawyer Rima Kapitan said in a phone interview Thursday.
Kapitan said Chehade also plans to file a lawsuit in federal court in Chicago, where Chehade was to start her job at Foley. Senior members of the firm “interrogated” Chehade over her social media posts before pulling her offer the day before her Oct. 23 start date, the EEOC charge claims.
“They took her media posts as evidence that she supported violence, even though she said her concern was freedom for Palestinians,” said...
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