Lauren J. Katunich is a Partner and Chair of the Labor & Employment Law Department at Raines Feldman. Lauren's team delivered a decisive victory at trial for a family sued by their former live-in nanny. (Photo: Business Wire)

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Lauren Katunich, Leticia Kimble, and Matthew Pate of Raines Feldman’s Labor and Employment Department delivered a decisive victory at trial for a family sued by their former live-in nanny. After nearly four weeks of trial, the jury returned a verdict for the defense on all counts, including the plaintiff-nanny’s allegations of racial harassment and several hundred thousand dollars in purportedly unpaid wages.

“It’s always great to win but given the particularly heinous nature of the allegations of racial harassment, to clear the name of a family I have come to know very well over the years is an even sweeter victory.”

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Ted and Laura Foxman terminated their live-in nanny in 2018 after several breaches of trust by the nanny deteriorated their relationship. Lead counsel Lauren Katunich argued to the jury that, notwithstanding a complicated fact pattern spanning nearly two and a half years of the parties living together in the same home, this case was about a disgruntled former employee seeking petty revenge against the family who had invited her son to live with them in her time of need and treated them both with exceptional kindness. The jury ultimately—and unanimously on most of the claims—agreed.

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