Springfield, MAOn June 6, Hampshire Superior Court Judge Bertha D. Josephson held that most of Bart Hollander’s claims of age discrimination in employment could proceed to trial. Hollander’s lawsuit has attracted attention because the defendant is the Springfield Office of the Massachusetts Attorney General’s office.
Amy Karangekis, one of the named defendants, was sworn in as a judge for the Massachusetts Superior Court on June 30. Hollander is a former senior employee of the Springfield Regional office of the AG’s office, serving in two roles, regional chief of the office and senior trial counsel, from 2013 to 2023.
Hollander alleges that Liza Tran, chief of the trial division at the Attorney General’s Office and one of Hollander’s supervisors, made discriminatory, age-based comments about him and coerced other supervisors to retaliate against him. He maintains that he complained to other supervisors twice about the age discrimination, but they did nothing to address the problem.
He also alleges that Tran implied to others that Hollander was a “rogue attorney,” unprepared to take a case to trial. Hollander blamed Tran for an unsatisfactory resolution of the case. During a call on Jan. 28, 2022, Hollander alleges that Tran made “two or more age-based discriminatory statements” and allegedly criticized his more than 22 years of service as an assistant attorney general and his nearly...
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