The partners of Manhattan real estate law firm Lazarus, Karp & Kalamotousakis are feuding with each other in a new lawsuit, accusing one another of withholding files and diverting firm assets to their respective new firms.

Thomas Kalamotousakis said he created a verbal partnership with Chad Karp and Mark Lazarus in 2015 but told them in May 2019 that the firm should wind down because of “unresolved difficulties and disagreements” that weren’t mentioned in his suit. Rather than amicably dividing the firm’s assets and business, his ex-partners started funneling it to their new firm, Kalamotousakis claims in a lawsuit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court.