General Electric Co. has now seen two in-house lawyers end up in court — as its opponents. In June, GE sued a one-time staff attorney, claiming that she took privileged company tax documents and gave them to two government agencies and a reporter. The materials apparently described an alleged tax fraud scheme by a GE division in Brazil. In a separate case last year, the general counsel of one of the company’s U.S. subsidiaries brought a gender discrimination class action against GE.
In the most recent action, Fairfield, Conn.-based GE filed suit June 6 against Adriana Koeck. The company brought its action in federal district court in Alexandria, Va.; Koeck now works in private practice in Washington, D.C. She was a commercial counsel for the company from January 2006 until she was fired in January 2007 “for performance reasons,” GE’s suit states. Koeck was based in Kentucky, and “had primary responsibility for regions outside of the United States,” including Brazil.
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