A North Carolina jury research and consulting company lodged a trade secrets lawsuit against a former employee who is accused of creating an identical business and targeting the clients in Florida and Georgia.

On Tuesday, attorneys with Fox Rothschild filed a multicount trade secrets complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina on behalf of Jury-X, a jury and analysis company that uses human and artificial intelligence to help identify juror bias. The plaintiff claims its former researcher, Lauren Kulp, formed a "knock-off version" of its legal services through a company called, Tandem Legal Solutions. Additionally, Jury-X claims the defendants have already started working with Jury-X's trial attorney clients, the complaint said.