BigLaw Partner Suspended for Helping Defraud Corporate Client

December 12, 2017, 8:42 PM UTC

The Georgia Supreme Court Dec. 11 suspended the license of a partner at an AmLaw 100 firm for misconduct he engaged in with a former in-house counsel for chemical giant J.M. Huber Corp, a conglomerate that has made perennial appearances on Forbeslist of America’s largest private companies.

The sanction against John F. Meyers, a prominent labor and employment litigator at the 600-lawyer firm Barnes & Thornburg LLP, was tied to events that occurred in 2011, when he worked for Seyfarth Shaw LLP.

Bar authorities accused Meyers of helping Michael L. DiTano, a moonlighting in-house counsel for a corporate ...

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