In a suit filed Friday in Delaware’s Chancery Court, former Edwards Wildman Palmer partner Lawrence Cohen claims a romantic affair between his wife—also an Edwards Wildman partner—and the firm’s soon-to-be-former managing partner, Walter Reed, cost Cohen and a colleague their jobs.
But Cohen’s 19-page civil complaint also alleges that the affair led Reed to put his romantic pursuits ahead of Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge’s interests amid merger talks last year with Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon. (The firms, which confirmed those discussions in July, officially merged operations on October 1.)
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