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Posted: Sat 11:56, 24 Aug 2013 Post subject: Dem Fundraiser in Nasty Spat Legal Pad |
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Dem Fundraiser in Nasty Spat Legal Pad
A legal fight between a small, politically connected law firm and a former associate who happens to be the wife of Judge Gerardo Sandoval has turned ugly.
Amy Harrington accuses Hallisey Johnson and its name partners,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Democratic fundraiser Jeremiah Hallisey and Charlene Haught Johnson, of breaching their employment agreement with her and blocking her fee petitions. She also says in her complaint she was sexually harassed,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], though she does not say by whom.
Hallisey and Johnson,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], meanwhile,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], say Harrington was removing client files and scheming to set up a competing practice even as Hallisey was raising money for Sandoval's 2008 judicial election campaign and recruiting political heavyweights for his induction ceremony.
"Plaintiffs were invited to defendant Amy Harrington's wedding. Then in 2008,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], "while at the same time secretly arranging for office space for her planned private practice to be in competition with plaintiffs,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], they prevailed upon plaintiff Jeremiah Hallisey to be master of ceremonies and to speak at Gerrardo [sic] Sandoval's Judicial Installation and to induce Attorney General Edmund G. Brown to attend and to speak as well."
Sandoval is not a named defendant and isn't accused of doing anything wrong. He referred a question about the case Friday to Harrington's attorney,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Robert Moore,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], who described the litigation as "a simple partnership dispute … nothing more, nothing less."
The entire San Francisco Superior Court bench has recused from the case, which has been assigned to retired Los Angeles Judge Edward Ross.
According to both complaints, Harrington joined Hallisey Johnson in early 2007. She is the daughter of Linda Harrington,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a longtime friend and client of the firm who acts as a conservator on a regular basis. Amy Harrington, who passed the bar in 2005, negotiated an oral contract for $75,000 a year plus one-third of all the fees she would bring in.
The arrangement apparently soured quickly. According to Harrington's complaint,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], "it was understood that Harrington would continue to maintain her own separate practice" and that she would work six hours a day, five days a week. "Harrington ultimately left H due to the breach of the employment agreement, lack of cooperation, and sexual harassment,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," Harrington alleges.
She sued March 2,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], seeking a return of fees and a declaration that she owes Hallisey Johnson nothing.
The next day Hallisey and Johnson countersued,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], alleging fraud, unfair competition and intentional infliction of emotional distress,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], among other things. "Many of the files belonging to the firm (including client files and cost sheets) which relate to cases on which Amy Harrington worked as an associate,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], are missing from the firm,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," they allege, "and plaintiffs are informed and believe that said paper files were taken by Amy Harrington when she left the firm after two years."
This came as a shock, Hallisey and Johnson say,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], because there was "a deep and personal,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], family like relationship between defendant, defendant's husband and children and Plaintiffs Jeremiah Hallisey and Charlene Haught Johnson."
Hallisey and Johnson are being represented by Edward Nevin of Nevin Absalom. Harrington was represented initially by Joseph Breall of Breall Breall,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but substituted in Moore,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a partner at Allen Matkins, earlier this month.
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