By Debra Cassens Weiss. A former paralegal at St. Louis Four Seasons Hotel. Her lawsuit was filed Dec. KSDK has coverage. Doe says she went to a bar at the Four Seasons after the party ended at about 4 p. A female co-worker tried to get Doe to go home, but she was combative by that time and refused to go. Instead, she left the bar and traveled with the two lawyers and others from the law firm to a strip club in Sauget, Illinois, the lawsuit says.
Louis, where Doe ended up at the home of one of the lawyers, according to the suit. At the club, Doe recalls being in a white and gold room where she was subjected to multiple acts of oral sex, the suit says. When Doe woke up in the home of one of the lawyers the next morning, he was groping her, the suit alleges. Doe says painful memories of the incident were triggered in September when she picked up a paper clip off the open hand of the lawyer.
She complained about the alleged assault to human resources, sought counseling, and filed criminal complaints in St. Louis and Sauget. The law firm placed Doe on paid administrative leave in October Doe alleges that her witnesses were not contacted. A little more than a month after Doe was placed on paid leave, the law firm informed her that she had to return to work or resign, the suit says.
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