By DAREH GREGORIAN
June 17, 2008
The renowned math and economics professor suing Columbia for gender discrimination and retaliation for an earlier lawsuit is, "by all accounts, a brilliant woman" - but she's a lousy employee, the university's lawyer claimed yesterday.
Graciela Chichilnisky is "not a woman who believes the rules apply to her," Edward Brill, Columbia's lawyer, said in opening statements at the Manhattan Supreme Court trial of her $11 million bias suit.
Chichilnisky's lawyer, Robert Felix, said it was the university that breached a 1995 agreement settling the earlier lawsuit - by cutting her pay and office space.
She stood up to them, and "they couldn't have that," Felix said.
