When the embattled former managing partner of Atlanta’s Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan needed legal assistance in managing tens of millions of dollars in assets for trust funds established by and for the heirs of the late industrialist and philanthropist Walter Bunzl, Bennett Kight turned to then law partner Kenneth Antley for advice.

When Antley left Sutherland for Atlanta’s Miller & Martin, he took with him both Kight’s business and that of an intricate network of companies he incorporated as an agent of the Bunzl trusts in what a new lawsuit claims was a blatant conflict of interest.