Oct. 17, 2022 ­— Maurice Wutscher attorney Brady Hermann spoke to AdvisorHub recently about a financial services company’s breach-of-contract lawsuit against a former in-house counsel.

The lawsuit alleges the attorney used confidential information he learned while employed regarding the company’s employment practices and litigation strategies when he assisted former brokers set up a competing Registered Investment Advisor, which he himself subsequently joined as general counsel.

Brady Hermann is senior counsel in the Boston and New York offices of Maurice Wutscher LLP. He regularly represents financial services companies including banks, broker-dealers, financial advisors, financial asset buyers and third party debt collectors in individual, class action and regulatory matters. He has successfully represented clients throughout the country against claims for violations of securities laws, the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, and various state consumer protection statutes.