Abdou v. Walker

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK SHAREEF ABDOU, Plaintiff, 19 Civ. 1824 (PAE) -v- OPINION & ORDER LORI ANN WALKER, Independent Executrix of the Estate of Brian Howard Mahany, JOSEPH BIRD, MAHANY LAW MAHANY & ERTL, LLC, and ANTHONY DIETZ, Defendants. PAUL A. ENGELMAYER, District Judge: Shareef Abdou (“Abdou”), a relator in a successful qui tam action against Bank of America (the “Bank”), has sued his former attorneys Brian Mahany, Joseph Bird, Anthony Dietz, Mahany Law, and Mahany & Ertl, LLC (the last two, the “firm”). His suit challenges the allocation—as between…