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On January 18, 2017, Justice Salvatore Modica of the Supreme Court of New York, Queens County, granted the Defendants’ motion to dismiss a retaliation claim brought under the New York State and New York City Human Rights Laws against a small bu...

Legal news site AboveTheLaw.com scored the first interview with a juror from the Marchuk trial. On Marchuk’s claim that Mr. Monteverde raped her in Faruqi’s offices after the firm’s 2011 holiday party, the juror stated: “We don’t believe she was r...

Today a federal jury rejected Alexandra Marchuk’s claims of employment discrimination against the Faruqi & Faruqi law firm and partner Juan Monteverde. Marchuk alleged that Monteverde had raped her in Faruqi’s offices after the firm’s holiday pa...

On January 26, 2015, U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein granted judgment as a matter of law dismissing all claims against Nadeem and Lubna Faruqi in Marchuk v. Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP. Marchuk sued the Faruqis and their law firm, claiming that p...

A jury of five men and three women heard opening arguments in the case against Faruqi & Faruqi, partner Juan Monteverde and the firm’s co-founders, siblings Nadeem and Lubna Faruqi. Plaintiff Alexandra Marchuk claims that Monteverde “quickly and forcefu...