Privateness Regulation
Former Schnader Harrison associate sued for alleged secret movies
A former associate on the now-closed regulation agency Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis is dealing with an amended lawsuit claiming that he made secret recordings with hidden cameras in loos or visitor rooms at his residences in New Jersey. (Picture from Shutterstock)
A former associate on the now-closed regulation agency Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis is dealing with an amended lawsuit claiming that he made secret recordings with hidden cameras in loos or visitor rooms at his residences in New Jersey.
The April 2 complaint filed by Christine Fortuna of Philadelphia alleges that she was amongst these secretly recorded by the lawyer, Robert McKinley of Villas, New Jersey, Law.com experiences. The swimsuit seeks damages for invasion of privateness and infliction of emotional misery.
McKinley was arrested in April 2022 on expenses of producing little one pornography and possession of kid sexual-abuse materials, in response to a story in the Cherry Hill Courier-Post printed on the time. The indictment and a warrant for his arrest accused McKinley of secretly recording at the least seven ladies at his dwelling, Regulation.com experiences.
A second defendant in Fortuna’s swimsuit is Lauletta Birnbaum, a New Jersey agency that McKinley joined in 2014. The swimsuit claims that McKinley transmitted the movies via agency servers and saved them on a Dropbox account affiliated with the agency. Lauletta Birnbaum fired McKinley after his arrest.
The prison expenses are pending.
Regulation.com summarized McKinley’s work historical past based mostly on his now-deleted LinkedIn profile. He labored at Schnader Harrison from 1999 to 2007. He grew to become the mental property observe chair at Klehr Harrison Harvey Branzburg, the place he labored till 2012. He then labored for a 12 months at RatnerPrestia earlier than becoming a member of Lauletta Birnbaum.
Lauletta Birnbaum gave this assertion to Regulation.com: “Whereas the allegations towards Mr. McKinley, if true, are repugnant and we actually really feel for the victims of Mr. McKinley’s alleged wrongdoing, the agency had completely no purpose to know of Mr. McKinley’s alleged conduct whereas he was related to the agency and any claims by the plaintiff on the contrary are false and can be vigorously contested.”
McKinley didn’t instantly reply to the ABA Journal’s request for remark in a voicemail left at a quantity listed by Pennsylvania ethics regulators. Nor did he instantly reply to a request for remark by Regulation.com.
