Law firm dissolutions are often messy affairs, but a suit filed in Fulton County last month described the departure of two of the three lawyers who once comprised Roswell boutique Bothwell Bracker, which specializes in False Claims Act litigation, as “a textbook example of how not to leave a law firm.”

According to the complaint filed June 25 in Fulton County State Court, Mike Bothwell, the firm’s owner and sole shareholder, had big plans for 2015. Last summer, the firm settled a major federal FCA suit that Bothwell had been handling for 16 years.