February 27, 2026
A Connecticut federal judge has opted not to cut short a Willkie Farr partner's abuse-of-process suit over an inflammatory affidavit entered in an underlying state court landlord-tenant dispute, determining a jury might find that the partner's landlord and his attorney used the filing to "besmirch" their tenants, including potentially shopping the story to the press.
June 10, 2025
A Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP partner and his wife are pursuing a federal lawsuit based on speculative allegations and trying to "chill" the First Amendment rights of a Connecticut attorney who represented their ex-landlord and leaked a story about them to the New York Post, the defendant is arguing in seeking judgment in his favor.
June 06, 2025
A Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP partner's onetime landlord asked for a pretrial victory in a federal feud with his former tenants, telling a Connecticut court Friday he did not participate in his ex-attorney's leak of unflattering allegations about A. Mark Getachew and his wife to the New York Post.
April 09, 2025
A Connecticut lawyer who tipped off the New York Post to a dispute between his landlord client and a tenant, a Willkie Farr partner, has asked a federal judge to help unravel the partner's claim that he lost a "multimillion-dollar opportunity" to work for Debevoise.
March 18, 2025
Connecticut solo practitioner Eric Grayson has withdrawn an appeal of a state court decision to toss his lawsuit against a partner at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP and his wife, in which he accused the couple of abusing the court process by suing him over his comments in a New York Post story about their dispute with a landlord.
March 05, 2025
A Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP partner has won the bulk of a $27,420 bid to recoup personal attorney fees after prevailing in a First Amendment feud with his former landlord's lawyer over a media leak, with a judge clipping just $3,550 for lack of a novel legal issue.
February 24, 2025
A Connecticut solo practitioner who lost a First Amendment lawsuit after leaking a Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP's partner's landlord-tenant dispute to the New York Post on Monday criticized the partner's bid to recoup his legal fees, arguing $8,250 is more reasonable than his current $27,000 demand.
September 26, 2024
A Connecticut state court has dismissed a solo practitioner's lawsuit that alleged a partner at Willkie and his wife abused the court process by suing him over his contribution to an unflattering New York Post story about the couple.
May 09, 2024
A solo practitioner in Greenwich, Connecticut, denied blame on Thursday for having "concocted" an unflattering New York Post article that said a Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP partner and his wife were squatting in a Connecticut mansion during a heated legal battle with their landlord.
April 08, 2024
A Connecticut federal judge has declined to toss a Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP partner's abuse of process case against a Constitution State attorney who allegedly orchestrated an unflattering New York Post article as retaliation for an underlying disqualification bid, ruling that the suit is not blocked by litigation privilege.