A former client of “racist lawyer” Aaron Schlossberg is suing the brash barrister for $50,000 over his rant against Spanish-speaking restaurant workers — claiming the tirade brought the recording label unwanted negative attention. Manhattan-based Niche Music Group had hired Schlossberg in January 2018 to represent the label in a breach of contract claim against Sony Music Entertainment.
But Niche fired Schlossberg after he was caught on video last spring threatening to have employees of a Midtown restaurant “kicked out of my country” because they were speaking to each other in Spanish. The racist rant went on to make several lists of the top viral videos of 2018.
In the recording Schlossberg is heard saying: “Every person I listen to — he spoke [Spanish], he spoke it, she’s speaking it — it’s America!”
“I pay for their welfare, I pay for their ability to be here — the least they can do is speak English,” he continued.
The video went viral and resulted in Schlossberg being booted from his Madison Avenue office. Two politicians filed et🅷hics complaints against Schlossberg, but he remains an atಌtorney in good standing.
Niche’s new suit against Schlossberg — the first of its kind by an ex-client — says the lawyer “owed a duty” to the label “to conduct himself in public in such a way as to not discredit himself or his clients.”
Niche was identified as a client in several news articles 🌊about🌼 Schlossberg.
It was later reported that Schlossberg had hurled other hate-filled insults at strangers over the past several years.
The new Manhattan Supreme Court suit adds that the George Washington University Law School grad should have known “his multiple public racist outbursts would reflect poorly on himself, his clients and his profession.”
Niche says it’s spent “significant time, money and resources to locate, engage and bring successor counsel up to speed.”
Schlossberg did not immediately return messages.