Chirayu Rana, the former JPMorgan banker who accused a female executive of forcing him to become her “sex slave,” is facing more setbacks in his high-profile lawsuit against the Wall Street behemoth.
An Oct. 23 court filing reviewed by Fortune found that yet another law firm has asked to drop Rana as a client—potentially marking his third change in legal representation since the case began in the spring. Another filing on Monday night also contained details about his sister’s prior testimony, which she appeared to recant. JPMorgan has urged a federal judge to dismiss the suit as a result.
Rana, who worked on the bank’s leveraged finance team, filed a sexual harassment lawsuit in April accusing Lorna Hajdini, an executive director, of drugging him, insulting him with racial slurs, and forcing him to act as her “sex slave” after he joined her team in 2024. Hajdini and JPMorgan have strongly denied these allegations. Hajdini has also countersued for defamation over Rana’s claims. Rana could not immediately be reached for comment.
JPMorgan declined Fortune’s request for comment. On Monday, however, the bank said in the same filing that Rana’s continued misconduct warrants “the most serious sanction available,” asking the court to dismiss the case.
JPMorgan said that Rana pushed his friend Allan Flott and sister Chandani Rana to share false sworn testimonies. “My brother asked me to speak with his attorney. He told me what to say and wrote it down for me beforehand. He was in the room during my conversation with the attorney, and he passed me written notes and whispered to me about what to say,” the Oct. 26 court filing, which detailed his sister’s account, read. She added that she has never seen his former JPMorgan boss “engage in any inappropriate, sexual, harassing, threatening, or intoxicated conduct toward my brother or anyone else.”
This comes just days after Sheharyar Ali Law Group filed a motion to withdraw counsel on Oct. 23—less than 24 hours after the New York-based law firm filed a motion for appearance to represent him. The firm said “underlying facts and circumstances of this litigation came to our attention” after it agreed to take the case. Sheharyar Ali Law Group did not specify what it had learned.
“Upon further review and consideration of this information, our firm determined that the circumstances materially differ from our initial understanding of the matter and that withdrawal is appropriate,” court papers filed in Manhattan federal court read. “Accordingly, we have promptly sought leave to withdraw, less than 24 hours after filing our Notice of Appearance.”
The firm asked that due to the “limited involvement” and “promptness of the request being made,” that the withdrawal “not prejudice the Plaintiff or disrupt the proceedings.” Sheharyar Ali Law Group did not immediately respond to Fortune’s request for comment.
The request follows a similar move by Jon Norinsberg of Joseph & Norinsberg LLC. In an Oct. 14 filing, Norinsberg cited “irreconcilable differences” that “render it unreasonably difficult” to continue representing Rana. Norinsberg, however, has yet to be dismissed. Another attorney, Daniel Kaiser of Kaiser, Saurborn & Mair, sought to withdraw in May, as well.