Lawsuit: Akin Gump Lawyers Used Client Money for Cayman Islands Vacation, Broadway Tickets
An internet domain company is seeking at least $25 million, alleging the firm's lawyers took advantage of an impaired CEO.
December 19, 2019 at 05:08 PM
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The original version of this story was published on The American Lawyer
This story has been updated with a response from Akin Gump.
Lawyers at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld allegedly took advantage of a troubled CEO and looted his internet domain business, using the company's money to pay for personal expenses that included a family vacation in the Cayman Islands and nearly $3,000 in Broadway tickets, according to a new legal malpractice lawsuit filed Thursday in New York state court.
Future Media Architects, a British Virgin Islands company that traffics in internet domain names, is seeking at least $25 million in damages against the Washington, D.C.-based law firm, whose attorneys began representing FMA in 2012 and its former CEO, Thunayan Al-Ghanim, in 2013.
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