A federal jury awarded nearly $1 million in damages to a lawyer who claimed his client, a friend for decades and the relator in an Internal Revenue Service whistleblower case, stiffed him out of his share of the proceeds from the case.

Because the jury found the defendant, also a lawyer, engaged in bad faith and was stubbornly litigious, there will be further litigation regarding an award of attorney fees, said the plaintiff’s lead attorney, Kevin Ward.

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