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The lawsuit filed by former JWT communications chief Erin Johnson and the agency and its former Chairman-CEO Gustavo Martinez is grinding on. In a court hearing today, Judge Paul Oetken approved a move by Ms. Johnson’s attorneys to add Title VII discrimination and retaliation claims to the suit, filed in New York in March over alleged racist and sexist comments by Mr. Martinez.

Ms. Johnson’s law team from Vladeck, Raskin & Clark filed a letter to Judge Oetken on Aug. 25, requesting a conference “to discuss defendants’ refusal to stipulate to plaintiff’s filing a Second Amended Complaint” according to the document.

The defendants’ lawyers accused Ms. Johnson of trying “to avoid the scrutiny of the EEOC (U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission)” with the Second Amended Complaint for Title VII,” the document states. One of Ms. Johnson’s lawyers, Anne Vladeck, said on Friday that going through the EEOC could take years and the team wanted to go to court “as soon as possible” due to the alleged sex, rape and anti-sematic comments the plaintiff was facing.

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