A former associate at Brayton Purcell has sued the firm and founding partner Alan Brayton for failing to pay his legal costs in a malpractice case and bar investigation that followed a scathing order by an Ohio judge accusing him of rampant misconduct in an asbestos case.

Christopher Andreas, who was an associate on the trial team from 1995 to 2008, filed suit on July 1 in San Francisco County, Calif., Superior Court.