Four Lewis Brisbois Lawyers Excluded From Bias Case (Corrected)

Four attorneys with Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP retained to take over a sex discrimination investigation from the director of human resources at Newman University are barred from defending the school against her whistleblower claims.

The attorneys are disqualified because they possess evidence material to the determination of the claims and defenses in the case brought by the Wichita-based university’s former HR director, Mandy Greenfield, the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas said May 24.

Greenfield alleges she was fired in retaliation for complaining about the school administration’s noncompliance with Title IX of the Education Amendments Act ...