He’s a general counsel’s worst nightmare. Dimitrios Biller was hired to come in-house and help manage Toyota’s litigation, and he wound up turning those skills on his own company. Toyota paid him $3.7 million to go away, and he came back with a vengeance.
That ironclad confidentiality clause he signed? He shoved it in the Cuisinart and filed a lawsuit in which he called Toyota a criminal enterprise. And if that weren’t enough, he named as coconspirators the general counsel of Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc., the previous GC, and three other in-house lawyers. When Toyota finally managed to steer the case into arbitration, that still didn’t shut him up. He shared rulings and talked about the case right up to the final arbitration hearing (which at press time was scheduled to start on November 15).
