Ex-Bingham Associate Files Date Rape Suit

The AmLaw Daily
Posted by Brian Baxter
June 30, 2009 1:53 PM

Months after a Massachusetts state agency dismissed a sexual harassment and retaliation complaint against Bingham McCutchen filed by a former associate, the firm has been slapped with a civil suit by Michelle Moor, who is seeking damages for allegedly being drugged at a holiday party by a Bingham staffer.
Courthouse News reports that Moor filed an 18-page complaint in Suffolk County Court in Boston last week alleging that she was drugged with Tegretol--an anti-seizure medication that causes memory loss when mixed with alcohol--while attending a lunch party with about 100 other Bingham employees at Lucia Ristorante & Bar in Boston's North End in December 2007.
The Am Law Daily reported on Moor's allegations in May 2008 when the former litigation associate claimed that during an office outing at another Boston restaurant called Grill 23 a month later, a litigation support employee told her that he liked to have sex with unconscious women and knew how to get "roofies," a slang term for the date rape drug Rohypnol. Moor also claims that at least one other female associate was drugged and raped by a Bingham employee the previous year.
Bingham vigorously denied Moor's allegations at the time, stating that the firm had tried to conduct an investigation of the staff member in question but was stymied by Moor's request to keep the incident under wraps. The firm also stated that Moor's rape allegations about another Bingham associate were "fundamentally inaccurate."

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