Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney is battling claims over unused vacation time with three California lawyers who have accused their former firm of forum-shopping.

Keith Solar and Robert Parks were partners in Buchanan Ingersoll’s San Diego office, and Robert Edmunds was of counsel, when all three resigned in May to form their own firm. After denying the lawyers’ requests for repayment on their unused vacation time, Buchanan Ingersoll filed a declaratory judgment action against them in August in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.