Sitrick and Company is handling the PR defense of real estate mogul and Indiana Pacers owner Herbert Simon and his wife, Bui, as they face a series of lawsuits from former household employees in Los Angeles.
The Simons won a court victory Thursday against a former nanny seeking back wages, two months after a superior court judge tossed claims made by a driver and another nanny previously employed by the couple, who claimed they were fired after becoming pregnant and disabled, respectively.
“We would not have been setting the right example for our children had we decided to simply write a check to avoid negative publicity,” Bui Simon said via Sitrick’s Tony Knight, the former Los Angeles Daily News city editor and 14-year veteran of the firm.
The couple has sued the attorney for the former staffers, Joseph Davis, for defamation via L.A. law firm Glaser, Weil, Fink, Jacobs, Howard, Avchen & Shapiro.
Simon is a co-founder of publicly traded Indianapolis-based shopping center developer Simon Property Group.