A Houston energy consulting and staffing company has filed a negligence suit against Littler Mendelson and Pittsburgh shareholder Terrence Murphy, alleging they provided too much information to adversaries in a federal FLSA case, leading to excess legal and settlement fees.

New Tech Global Ventures claims that the employee contact information that Littler turned over to plaintiffs in an underlying Fair Labor Standards Act suit allowed their adversaries to add many additional plaintiffs to the suit.