The discovery of $22 million in shortfalls to the escrow accounts of real estate closing firm Morris Hardwick Schneider two years ago pushed the firm into bankruptcy, led to a criminal indictment against one of its former owners, Nathan Hardwick IV, and has spawned a plethora of civil suits.
The latest suit is from the firm’s two other owners, brothers Mark and Gerard Wittstadt, against a high-profile Atlanta sports lawyer, W. David Cornwell Sr., for “aggressive litigation” against them and their firm—now Morris Schneider Wittstadt—that they claim damaged their reputations and that of the firm badly enough to drive it into bankruptcy last year.
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