Littler Pays Up, Drops Partner from Website After Keeping Docs from Court
“Littler Mendelson appears to have parted ways with a shareholder who allegedly misrepresented to a federal court that human resources software company ADP LLC wasn’t complying with a subpoena when in fact it had,” reports David Thomas in Westlaw Today.
“ADP was nearly sanctioned by an Alabama federal judge last month when subpoenaed documents it submitted in a class action lawsuit never made it to the plaintiffs. That’s because the defendants’ attorneys at Littler never produced those documents, telling the court that ADP was refusing to comply.”
“As a result, Littler has been forced to pay more than $63,000 of ADP’s legal fees, with another fee payment coming thanks to a Wednesday ruling from U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Beaverstock. And there may have already been other repercussions as well: A Littler shareholder who allegedly misled the court, Gavin Appleby, was no longer listed on the firm’s website as of Friday.”