Article: Two former Arter & Hadden lawyers file eight-count suit against firm, seeking $10 million. (C. Willis Ritter, Richard A. Eichner)

WASHINGTON - Two lawyers who recently set up their own public finance law firm in Washington are seeking almost $10 million from their former firm, Arter & Hadden, in an eight-count lawsuit charging fraud and breach of contract.

In a suit filed in October 1992 in the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas in Columbus, Ohio, C. Willis Ritter and Richard A. Eichner charged that Arter & Hadden misrepresented its financial condition and the amount of annual compensation that lawyers could expect to receive after Arter & Hadden merged with the Washington firm of Haynes & Miller in May 1990.

The two lawyers, who had practiced at Haynes & Miller, are also ...

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