Celebrity | Paula Deen Paula Deen Dumps Legal Team New lawyer specializes in employment discrimination suits By Evann Gastaldo Posted Jul 12, 2013 9:08 AM CDT Copied In this Oct. 26, 2009 file photo, Paula Deen applauds at the Women's Conference 2009 Night in Long Beach, Calif. (AP Photo/Katy Winn, File) First she ditched her agent, now Paula Deen is swapping out her legal team in the latest fallout from her n-word scandal, the AP reports. Her new lead counsel is Grace Speights, an attorney with Morgan, Lewis & Bockius in Washington, who specializes in employment discrimination defense. (The n-word admission came out of a lawsuit from a former manager of a restaurant Deen co-owns with her brother, who says she was sexually harassed and also claims racial slurs were commonplace at the restaurant.) Read These Next Multiple people have been shot at a Mormon church in Michigan. The gunman who killed 4 at a Michigan church was an ex-marine. The latest mass shooting in the US took place from a boat. 'We heard a big bang,' says churchgoer in Michigan Report an error