Poeta v. Jaffe

SHEPPARD, J.,

Defendants, Richard P. Jaffe, Robert P. Krauss, Barry J. Frank and Harvey N. Shapiro have filed preliminary objections to the amended complaint of plaintiffs, John Poeta and Beth Stem-Fleming. For the reasons set forth, this court will enter a contemporaneous order overruling the objections.

BACKGROUND

This dispute arises from the breakup of the law firm of Mesirov Gelman Jaffe Cramer & Jamieson LLP. The plaintiffs’ basic allegations are set forth in greater detail in this court’s earlier opinion of May 30, 2001.1 The amended complaint adds the following assertions:

• At meetings of…