A disgruntled former client has sued King & Spalding and two Houston partners, seeking more than $1 million in damages and alleging they engaged in misrepresentations and fraud in connection with fees they were paid for work on an arbitration.

“This case illustrates what happens when attorneys, retained by a client to represent that client in arbitration, decide instead to represent their own pecuniary interests and those of a third-party funder and to make a mockery of the fiduciary obligations an attorney owes to their clients,” plaintiff Trinh Vinh Binh alleges in a petition filed in Harris County state court Friday.