How Rainmaking for a Big Firm Led to a Two-Year Bar Suspension
The transcript of the 2015 disciplinary hearing offers the deepest public glimpse of an attorney's long career in the law—and how he believed he had done nothing wrong.
December 18, 2017 at 03:20 PM
7 minute read
John F. Meyers was a rainmaker at Seyfarth Shaw, forging and maintaining client relationships—and billing hundreds of thousands of dollars every month, the former equity partner in Atlanta once recounted.
Meyers had about 30 regular clients at Seyfarth, where the veteran lawyer—he helped build the firm's Atlanta office—was on the labor and employment team. He estimated his hands touched $5 million to $6 million in business annually.
All of that came to a sudden stop in 2012, when one of Seyfarth's big clients, the New Jersey-based manufacturer J.M. Huber Corp., raised concerns about Meyers' billing. A Huber in-house lawyer confronted Seyfarth, and Meyers was questioned at a meeting at the firm's headquarters in Chicago.
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