Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan managing partner John Quinn might have had some harsh words for Faith Gay as she left his firm to start a new outfit with several colleagues, but the brief email dust-up pales in comparison to some of the most epic law firm breakups over the years.
As The American Lawyer reported last week, Quinn trained his ire at Gay after she sent a note to Quinn Emanuel staff about her impending departure to newly launched Selendy & Gay. In an email first posted by the blog Above The Law, Quinn employed such words as “deception” and “ingratitude” when describing Gay, also saying that his firm deserved credit for building Gay, a former federal prosecutor, into a “legal star.”
