If you believe Legalmatch.com, one of its competitors is so anxious to horn in on its Internet matchmaking business that it resorted to lies to persuade more than half a dozen workers to jump ship.
Casepost.com doesn't deny hiring those employees, who are now at the center of a $20 million lawsuit filed by Legalmatch in San Francisco Superior Court last January. But a lawyer for the Irvine, Calif.-based company, which plans to file a cross-complaint by next week, said Legalmatch is to blame because it created an unhappy work environment. Both companies help connect lawyers to potential clients.
"We believe that the only reason for filing the lawsuit is just because Casepost is a competitive business right now with Legalmatch, and it's growing," said Brad Mokri, the Santa Ana lawyer defending Casepost and some of its employees.
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