Less than two months after a Seyfarth Shaw partner sued his former firm claiming it owed him a share of assets and profits, the firm has sued Seyfarth, claiming it “cherry picked” one of its major clients during acquisition talks for a merger that never materialized.
The new allegations arose after Jonathan Wolfert, who leads Seyfarth Shaw’s New York litigation department, sued his former partners and their new firm, Kaplan Landau, in February, claiming they were obligated to pay his share of assets and profits from their prior firm (NYLJ, Feb. 25).
