WEEKS v. BAKER & McKENZIE

No. A068499.

74 Cal.Rptr.2d 510 (1998)

63 Cal.App.4th 1128

Rena WEEKS, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. BAKER & McKENZIE et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division One.

As Modified on Denial of Rehearing June 2, 1998.

Review Denied August 26, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert M. Vantress, Silicon Valley Law Group, for Martin R. Greenstein.

Jerome B. Falk, Jr., Bernard A. Burk, Simon J. Frankel, Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin, John J. Bartko, Robert H. Bunzel, Bartko, Zankel, Tarrant & Miller, San Francisco, for Baker & McKenzie.

Philip E. Kay, Sanford Jay Rosen, Lawrence A. Organ, Rosen, Bien & Asaro, Alan B. Exelrod, Rudy, Exelrod, Zieff & True, San Francisco, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


STEIN, Associate Justice.

A jury found that Martin R. Greenstein, a partner in the law firm of Baker & McKenzie, sexually harassed his secretary, plaintiff Rena Weeks and awarded her $50,000 in compensatory damages from both Greenstein and Baker & McKenzie. The jury further awarded Weeks $225,000 in punitive damages from Greenstein and $6.9 million in punitive damages from Baker & McKenzie. The latter award was reduced to $3.5 million by the trial court...

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