An ex-client has sued Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr and a Chicago partner at the firm, accusing the partner of referring a case against her to his father, a solo attorney.

Farva Jafri, a former client of Saul Ewing, filed a legal malpractice complaint last week in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, against Saul Ewing and partner John Gekas. Gekas had been a partner of Chicago-based Arnstein & Lehr, which merged with Saul Ewing last year.