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Product Liability

Apr. 30, 2010

Toyota Accuser's Lawyers Want Out

Former Toyota in-house counsel Dimitrios P. Biller--whose allegations about misconduct by the automaker's legal department received increased attention in the sticky gas pedal scandal--is at such odds with his own lawyers that they have asked to be removed from his case against the company.

By Ciaran McEvoy

Daily Journal Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES - A former Toyota in-house counsel who accused the automaker's legal department of misconduct in the handling of rollover crash cases is at such odds with his own lawyers that they have asked to be removed from his case against the company.

In court papers filed last week, Jeffrey F. Allen, Joseph P. Wohrle and Ignacio Zaragoza of the Santa Monica-based Allen + Wohrle...

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