Arab-Muslim lawyer files lawsuit against Chicago-based law firm over revoked job offer alleging discrimination based on her pro-Palestinian protests and Muslim identity
Jinan Chehade, of Oak Lawn, filed a lawsuit claiming she was fired from a new job because of her support for Palestine, May 30, 2024. A Lebanese-American lawyer accused a national law firm of discrimination in a recently filed lawsuit alleging she was fired the day before she was set to start a job at the firm’s Chicago office in late October because of her Muslim and Arab identity.
According to the complaint, Chehade, a Georgetown Law School graduate, had been interning with Foley & Lardner in July 2022 when they offered her a full-time position to begin in fall 2023. Then, 15 hours before she was set to start work, she was fired, according to the complaint. “As soon as we all sat down, they pulled out a packet of about 15 to 20 pages with screenshots of my social media posts, about speeches that I’ve made, about my background, my identity,” Chehade said. “When I really started to feel the anxiety and panic was when they asked me about my dad, and where he worked – and obviously as a child of immigrants, a big law firm asking you about your father… alarm bells just started going off in my head,” Chehade told the Tribune in an interview Thursday.
“It was devastating when they turned against me and vilified me in this way when I really respected their supposed commitment to diversity,” Chehade said.
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