A Somerville, N.J., lawyer is fighting a malpractice suit claiming he failed to inform a client that an employment-bias case had been thrown out 10 years earlier and, after the client filed for bankruptcy, blocked a Chapter 7 trustee’s efforts to find out the status of the case.

Trustee Andrea Dobin sued on May 18 in New Jersey’s Monmouth County Superior Court and Stephen Klausner filed an answer on July 1 in Dobin v. Klausner, L-2422-11.