Jones Day says two married former associates suing it for alleged paternity leave discrimination, sex-based pay bias, and job retaliation failed to raise enough evidence to warrant a trial.

The international law firm seeks to put an end to Mark Savignac’s and Julia Sheketoff’s August 2019 lawsuit in a summary judgment motion filed Dec. 2. It also seeks sanctions against the couple, asserting that they’ve continued with some of their claims in bad faith because they know they lack any evidentiary support for those allegations.

The suit alleges that Jones Day’s parental leave policy is biased against fathers because it gives them eight fewer weeks of paid leave than new mothers. It also alleges that Sheketoff received a smaller bonus in 2017 than she should have and that her sex was the cause, that Jones Day retaliated against Savignac by firing him for complaining about the leave bias, and that a press release the firm issued after the couple sued likewise was retaliatory.

The evidence doesn’t support any of Savignac’s and Sheketoff’s remaining claims, the motion for summary judgment said.

Jones Day allows both new mothers and fathers to take 10 weeks of paid family leave, and provides eight additional weeks of leave to mothers on the presumption that they will be disabled for that period following child birth, the motion said. That presumption was...

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