Ness Motley law firm ordered to produce financial records in dispute with ex-client

A United States law firm accused of lining its own pockets by cutting a deal with a telemarketing fraudster to the detriment of one of its clients – an asset recovery firm whose investors include Lines Overseas Management – has been ordered by a court to produce all of its financial statements and tax returns from 2000 to the present.The order to compel South Carolina-based Ness Motley Loadholt Richardson & Poole to produce the documents was issued by the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on March 14, 2003 upon application by plaintiffs Interclaim Holdings Ltd. and Interclaim Recovery Ltd., whose operations are based in Ireland and ultimately owned by a Bermuda company.