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Ethics/Professional Responsibility

Jan. 23, 2013

Walnut Creek lawyer files ethics suit against former employer

A Walnut Creek-based attorney alleges that his former law firm employer and its name partner engaged in a reckless pattern of unethical behavior in a suit filed Friday in federal court in San Francisco.


By Kevin Lee
and Hadley Robinson


Daily Journal Staff Writers


SAN FRANCISCO - A Walnut Creek-based attorney alleges that his former law firm employer and its name partner engaged in a reckless pattern of unethical behavior in a suit filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco.


Jon T. King writes in the 78-page complaint that Virginia-based class action lawyer Michael D. Hausfeld and his law firm, Hausfeld LLP, spied on other law firms, d...

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