Philadelphia law firm Kleinbard is facing federal claims by a local women-owned law firm that it used the firm’s diversity certification to obtain six-figure legal contracts from the Pennsylvania Office of General Counsel before breaching the fee-sharing agreements between the two firms and failing to share the work.

The complaint, filed in Pennsylvania’s Eastern District on Thursday by 10-lawyer Griesing Law, describes being repeatedly duped into serving as Kleinbard’s small diverse business subcontractor to obtain RFPs for legal services from the commonwealth following Gov. Tom Wolf’s 2015 executive order requiring the state to support women- and minority-owned businesses in its procurement of services.

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