She asked to limit court exposure - her employer told her to stay seven hours
The Legal Aid Society - which describes itself as the oldest and largest provider of legal services to low-income New Yorkers - is being sued by one of its own social workers over how it handled her disability accommodation request.
Marissa Kubicki, a forensic social worker in the Bronx Parole Revocation Defense Unit, filed a putative class action on May 11, 2026 in the Southern District of New York. The complaint names the organization, its Chief Human Resources Officer Connie Park, a senior employee relations specialist, and three supervisors. It alleges they denied her disability accommodation request and required her to sit in court for up to seven hours a day on coverage days while she was undergoing immunosuppressive treatment.
Kubicki has ankylosing spondylitis, a chronic autoimmune condition. According to the filing, she had worked under an approved accommodation - three remote days, two in-office days a week - and went to court when an attorney, client, or hearing actually needed her. The complaint says she started immunosuppressive treatment in October 2025, which made unnecessary courthouse exposure medically risky.
The shift Kubicki challenges came after she sought to amend her accommodation. The complaint states she submitted updated documentation on November 24, 2025, and a comprehensive amended request on December 9, 2025. What began in August 2025 as a one-hour court-presence...
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