McNulty v. McDonald

DECISION AND ORDER ON DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO DISMISS PLAINTIFFS’ COMPLAINT AND TO COMPEL ARBITRATION

D. BROCK HORNBY, District Judge.

This is a dispute between the individual plaintiffs, Joseph A. McNulty, Michael J.K. Fleetwood, Arman Mouhibian, Robert E. Leib, and Carl Stubner, on the one hand, and the Portland law firm Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer & Nelson, P.A. (“Bernstein Shur”) and one of its partners, Paul McDonald (collectively “the lawyers”), on the other hand. In 2005, the plaintiffs guaranteed the payment of legal fees to the lawyers for legal services rendered and to be rendered to two…