Former DLA Partner: Outside Firm’s Negligent Email Release Made Him Unhireable

In a malpractice lawsuit, a former partner at DLA Piper is suing the outside law firm that represented DLA in a billing dispute that was settled 2013. In the course of that litigation the outside counsel released thousand of pages of emails, some of which included loose talk about billing, running up time, etc., and some of which were written by the plaintiff in the current suit, Erich Eisenegger. He maintains that his comments were part of a broader discussion of DLA Piper’s billing habits and professional lapses, but in any case he faults the outside counsel for failing to review the documents “for privilege, relevance, confidentiality, or any other basis for justifiably withholding or redacting.” Eisenegger maintains that while DLA Piper’s “size and multi-billion dollar brand was well equipped to continue and thrive after the embarrassing results of the discovery errors,” he personally was not, and as a result his professional reputation was destroyed.