SAN FRANCISCO — Lawyers for a Southern California construction company found themselves on the wrong side of a California appellate panel on Monday for what the court condemned as a meritless, “scorched earth” litigation campaign against opposing counsel in a trade secrets dispute.
In a scathing ruling, the Fourth District Court of Appeal said the 2013 suit filed by Finton Construction Inc. against the Newport Beach law firm Bidna & Keys was an abuse of the court system and called the tactics of lawyers led by Alston & Bird partner James Evans Jr. “conduct that brings disrepute to the entire legal profession.”
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