A lawsuit alleging fraud and breach of Shartsis Friese Law Firm contract against the San Francisco-based law firm Shartsis Friese LLP (case # BC541392 )has been filed at the Stanley Mosk California Superior Court building.
The lawsuit was brought by Roger Peikin, a former Shartsis Friese client who alleges a number of abuses against his former legal representatives including fraud and deceit, negligent misrepresenation and overbilling.
The lawsuit goes on to detail specific complaints against Shartsis Friese attorneys including the following specifics on an overbilling allegation:
"Over the course of 1 8 months, Defendants billed PLAINTIFF for over $1.4 million in 16 attorneys' fees and costs. Defendants' engaged in abusive billing practices and excessive overbilling, 1 7 including the following:
Defendants and their employees billed PLAINTIFF for more time than was actually worked;
Defendants over--billed PLAINTIFF for work that was performed or should have been performed by legal assistants or paralegals.
Defendants billed PLAINTIFF for work performed by a partner attorney, which should have been performed by an associate attorney.
Attorney David Hong billed $35,000 at $275/hour to review documents in the SEC action, but generated no written work product;
Defendants billed over $90,000 of attorney( fees related to the disqualification lawsuit against O'Melveny and Meyers, which it then voluntarily dismissed after the Judge in the Aletheia v. Proctor matter commented that the disqualification issue should have been properly raised as a disqualification motion in that matter. "
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This case is currently going forward and Peikin states:
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