King & Spalding Can’t Use Professor’s Expert Testimony in Suit

King & Spalding can’t use an ethics professor’s expert testimony in a lawsuit brought against the firm by a former associate, a federal district court ruled.

Testimony by Fordham Law’s Bruce Green was excluded because it’s “only minimally probative and likely to be highly distracting and confusing to the jury,” Judge Valerie Caproni of the the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York said Sept. 24.

David Joffe alleges in the lawsuit that his firing and acts the firm took against him before he was let go were done in retaliation for his efforts to comply with ...