As a partner at a Dallas-based law firm, Kimberly A. Elkjer felt isolated. “She just thought the guys wouldn’t hang out with her, and she didn’t know why,” says her attorney Amy Gibson. But then, Elkjer claims, she discovered that the law firm had an actual policy that prevented that, either in the office or outside of it.
Scheef & Stone LLP allegedly had a policy banning male and female employees from working alone together, in addition to a no-fraternization policy that extended that prohibition outside the office doors. Now Elkjer is suing the firm, claiming that these bans prevented women from advancing like their male colleagues.
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