Law360 (April 9, 2021, 9:21 PM EDT) — A California judge Friday overruled a bid by an attorney’s dance studio to escape a lawsuit brought by her gay former legal assistant against the lawyer and her companies over claims the attorney’s namesake firm didn’t pay him minimum wage, harassed him and wrongfully fired him after he informed a superior he had HIV.
During a short hearing, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael L. Stern denied a demurrer from the Matian Law Group, which had argued that the Matian Dance Studio — privately owned by the law firm’s managing partner Negar Matian — was improperly included by former legal assistant Jose Vidal…
