Eight months after a dozen male alumni of Poly Prep Country Day School settled a federal lawsuit in which they accused the prestigious Brooklyn high school of covering up years of sexual abuse by a revered football coach, 11 of those plaintiffs have sued the school's lawyers at O'Melveny & Myers for allegedly prolonging the litigation by lying about how much Poly Prep administrators knew about the abuse.
In a suit filed Sunday in New York state court—and first reported by the New York Daily News—the plaintiffs, represented by Orangeburg, New York, solo practitioner and Poly Prep alumnus Kevin Mulhearn, contend that O'Melveny lawyers, including labor and employment partner and New York office head Jeffrey Kohn, engaged in "rampant, endemic, unabated, false, fraudulent, and deceptive misconduct" throughout their defense of Poly Prep in two suits concerning the actions of longtime football coach Philip Foglietta, who died in 1998. (Sibling publication the New York Law Journal has more on the suit.)
