The ugly allegations are flying back and forth in dueling lawsuits between founders of Roche Cyrulnik Freedman, a Boies Schiller Flexner spinoff.

The firm, which spun out of Boies Schiller early last year, sued founding name partner Jason Cyrulnik late last month in federal court in Manhattan claiming that he refused to leave after being voted out of the partnership. The suit, filed by lawyers at New York litigation super-boutique Kaplan Hecker & Fink, claims Cyrulnik demanded to be paid more than he was due under the new firm’s compensation structure. The suit also claims that Cyrulnik’s partners unanimously voted him out after he exhibited a “pattern of increasingly abusive, destructive, erratic, and obstructive behavior” beginning in July 2020 including yelling at partners.