NEW YORK
Corporate Counsel

By Andrew Keshner
New York Law Journal
August 16, 2013

Former students who settled a lawsuit alleging a prestigious private school in Brooklyn covered up a football coach’s years of sexual abuse are now suing the school’s outside counsel at O’Melveny & Myers for allegedly trying to “deceive” the court with “fraudulent evidence” and “materially false and fraudulent statements.”

Naming O’Melveny and Jeffrey Kohn, managing partner of the firm’s New York office, as defendants, the action argues they “should not be allowed to escape sanction for their grievous and oft-repeated falsehoods.”

The lawsuit, Zimmerman v. Kohn, 652826/2013, was filed Aug. 11 in Manhattan Supreme Court (See Complaint). It demands that, in addition to other things, O’Melveny reimburse the plaintiffs for $2 million in legal fees expended to achieve a confidential settlement. In addition, the plaintiffs are seeking that all fees paid to O’Melveny…