Lawyers, and I suspect a good deal of employers, watched the
Marchuk v. Faruqi & Faruqi case with a great deal of interest.
The allegations after all were quite scandalous — namely that
Juan Monteverde, one of Faruqi’s high profile partners, had
sexually harassed Marchuk and raped her. Some of the interest may
have been little more than schadenfreude as Faruqi & Faruqi
have certainly made their share of enemies trolling for class actions against
corporate giants.
Now that the verdict has come in and it was rather
non-spectacular given the allegations, defense lawyers may be
celebrating that a jury rejected most of the claims and only
awarded a total of $140,000. Above the Law has tracked down a juror to
explain the verdict, especially given the rape allegations. There
is probably a lot of interest in reading the juror’s tale,
most notably the rare glimpse inside jury deliberations.
