After flooding attorneys with professional negligence suits for 14 years, Hilton Stein is awash in anguish of his own. New Jersey’s best-known malpractice maven, locked in litigation with former partners, has filed a bankruptcy petition and is taking a disability leave from the profession.

Since he left Totowa’s Stein, Thyne, LaGrotta, Roper & Twardowsky a year ago, Stein and four ex-partners have been pounding each other in Essex County Superior Court and arbitration with opposing claims for hundreds of thousands of dollars in receipts and capital contributions. They even fought over who should arbitrate the case.

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