The DeKalb County district attorney and King & Spalding are clashing bitterly as multimillion-dollar civil litigation over the DeKalb County School District, the firm’s client, becomes enmeshed with the DA’s prosecution of former school officials.

In a scathing brief filed on Friday and replete with phrases that have been italicized, bolded or both, DeKalb DA Robert D. James Jr. wrote that King & Spalding and its client showed “bad faith and collusion” and claimed attorney-client privilege “where it does not exist” in discovery-related matters.

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