Sex and The Start-Up

May 13, 2017/Richard Cohen/Comments Off on Sex and The Start-Up

If you had any doubt that startups are incubators of sexual harassment which leads inexorably to sexual harassment charges and lawsuits which can cripple, if not destroy your company, as I wrote about this week in Above The Law, I recommend reading Lara Vapnyar’s book review in this weekend’s New York Times of a novel by Doree Shafrir entitled (aptly) “Startup.”

Here’s a snippet from the review:

“I used to work at a place where we had to take annual sexual harassment quizzes. The quizzes were online, the questions were multiple choice. For some reason, I would always fail them. … Reading “Startup,” a biting and astute debut novel by Doree Shafrir, made me feel stuck inside one of those quizzes again.”

Takeaway:  Read this review (and, oh yeah, the book too!) and call your employment lawyer today!

Subscribe to Blog via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 62 other subscribers

Employment Law Home

Categories

Posted in

Richard Cohen

Richard B. Cohen is a partner in the New York City office of FisherBroyles, LLP, a national law firm. Richard Cohen has litigated and arbitrated complex corporate, commercial and employment disputes for more than 35 years, and is a trusted advisor to business owners and in-house counsel both in the United States and internationally. His clients have included Fortune 100 companies, domestic and foreign commercial and investment banks, Pacific-rim corporations and real estate development companies, as well as start-up businesses throughout the United States. Email Richard at [email protected]