Grant & Eisenhofer has sued a former whistleblower client and two other law firms, alleging the whistleblower and her current lawyers conspired to strip Grant & Eisenhofer of its fee on a $280 million settlement.
The Grant & Eisenhofer complaint, filed Thursday in Los Angeles federal court, targets Beverly Brown, a former Celgene Corp. saleswoman who the firm represented for several years in a False Claims Act suit accusing the drug company of illegally promoting medications for off-label uses. The suit also names as defendants the San Clemente, California-based law firm Bienert, Miller & Katzman and the firm of Columbia, South Carolina-based lawyer Richard Harpootlian.
