Redweld Warrior
                         By Steve Gordon


                Prologue: Life in a New York Law Firm...

     "-and the record will clearly show that Jane Sommers was
sexually harassed while working at the firm of Tolcott, Teitelbaum,
Ailing, LaGossi, Kentrust & Kirch."  The plaintiff's lawyer,
Mildred Aparn, was dressed in a formal black suit meant to match
the seriousness of the occasion.  "During this period of time Ms.
Sommers was verbally degraded.  She was called, by varying
employees and partners of the firm, a skirt, a bitch, a whore, a
slut, and other derogatory names which I will submit for the
record."
     Jane Sommers sat at the small table behind her attorney.  How
had it ever come to this?  She could not force herself to look over
at the other side of the room, where the partners of Tolcott,
Teitelbaum, Ailing, LaGossi, Kentrust & Kirch sat, all stoney-
faced.
     "Ms. Sommers was denied important work assignments that were
handed to male competitors in her office simply because she was a
woman.  Her work consisted of lowly proofreading and diligence
assignments while a male associate at a comparable level was
drafting deal-making documents.  When my client protested, she was
made to shelve books in the library and deliver packages to the
firm's Queens office.  It was made clear to Ms. Sommers that if she
wanted to get ahead at the firm that she needed to play ball with
the associates.  Usually, that meant having sex with Mr. Tolcott."
     There was a small gasp from the audience.  Tolcott, who had
been sitting there with a blank expression on his face, raised an
inquiring eyebrow, but said nothing.
     "Ms. Sommers was treated beneath contempt at the firm.  She
was made to perform useless assignments such as working long
weekends on projects that the partners knew to be canceled, and she
was even required to do the homework for the children of the
partners at Tolcott Teitelbaum.  And as I have already mentioned
she was forced to shelve books in the firm library and deliver
packages around the city, as no other attorney at that firm, or
indeed in any respected firm in the country, would be required to
do."
     Aparn wet her lips.  "Ms. Sommers was given a receptionist who
verbally abused her, refused to do her work, and told callers that
she no longer worked there.  When she complained, it was Ms.
Sommers, and not the secretary, who was reprimanded.   Finally one
of the partners at this firm reached out and touched Ms. Sommers in
a sexual way, explicitly demanding sexual gratification as the
price for advancement in the firm."
     "Jane Sommers is not a whiner.  Nor is she a quitter.  She
spent 15 months trying to make things work at the firm, despite the
fact that the system was stacked against her.  What you're going to
hear during the course of this trial is her story, at the end of
which any reasonable person will be forced to conclude that the
firm tolerated an atmosphere where sexual harassment was not only
an acceptable but an encouraged way of doing business."
     "This, now, will be Jane's story."



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