This wasn’t an entirely bad thing, because it meant business for other lawyers. Sure enough, Leonard Jacoby has now sued Stephen Meyers (and another principal, Gail Koff) for “at least $2 million.” Jacoby claims his partners forced him out with a “devastatingly effective squeeze-out technique.” They didn’t pay his office rent! he says. And, apart from the money he may have lost, Jacoby alleges “severe emotional distress with accompanying physical and bodily injury, including without limitation headaches and stomach problems.” In another time, it would have been a case for Jacoby & Meyers. This time, Jacoby hired a 25-lawyer L.A. firm, one that doesn’t advertise on TV.
