The lawsuit comes after creative veteran Ralph Watson was anonymously outed in January on the Diet Madison Avenue social-media site for undisclosed sexual harassment against multiple women over the course of his career. He was subsequently fired by CP+B.

One of the more interesting nuggets of news last week was that Carat has hired a big league consultant-type for the role of president, Carat global: Christine Removille, a cofounder of Accenture Interactive.