Bloomberg Law
May 10, 2017, 7:25 PM UTC

Ex-Big Law Associate Claims His Ethical Concerns About Partners Got Him Fired

Casey Sullivan

A former associate of King & Spalding has sued the law firm for wrongful termination, saying he was fired in December 2016 because he reported ethical misconduct to the firm’s management.

David A. Joffe worked as a New York commercial litigation associate at the firm from January 2012 to December 7, 2016.

In a 15-page complaint filed in the Southern District of New York this week, Joffe claimed the firm took retaliatory action against him after he reported “actual or narrowly-averted ethical breaches” by partners Robert Perry and Paul Strauss.

The partners, he claimed, made misrepresentations in 2014 in a wrongful ...

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