SACRAMENTO — A Southern California-based firm that specializes in workers compensation defense has sued four ex-partners, alleging that they spent 18 months on the firm’s dime planning to launch a competing practice.

Adelson, Testan, Brundo, Novell & Jimenez says Michael Misa, Martin Stefen, Matthew Koller and Teresa Ward, all partners in the Long Beach office, used company email and phones to discuss potential office locations, to consider a name for their new firm and to schedule a meeting with a financial adviser, according to a complaint filed in Orange County Superior Court.

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