Two Washington, D.C., attorneys who are accused of stealing confidential client information have filed a counterclaim in federal district court, accusing their former employer, Mike Slocumb of The Slocumb Law Firm, of misleading clients, defamation, tortuous interference and breach of contract.

Religious schools don’t have a free pass to ignore a key federal employment law based on a “ministerial exception.” At least not in the 6th Circuit, according to a ruling Tuesday in a case of first impression. Kindergarten teacher Cheryl Perich says she was unlawfully fired by Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran School in Redford, Mich., after she suddenly became ill — she was later diagnosed with narcolepsy — and went on disability leave.

A former in-house counsel who claims he was fired because his supervisor had “a discriminatory animus toward Jewish people” must respond to allegations in a counterclaim from his former employer that he improperly disclosed confidential information in his court complaint, a New York appellate court ruled Tuesday. In a unanimous opinion, the panel concluded that the lawyer’s obligation to the Loews Corp. was not overridden by the fact that he was an “at will” employee.

Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc. has moved to dismiss recent racketeering conspiracy allegations brought against the automaker on the grounds that the plaintiff, a former in-house attorney, has failed to establish the existence of an enterprise or that he was injured by the alleged conduct. In fact, Toyota argued, plaintiff Dimitrios Biller filed his RICO claims as a “collateral attack” against his former employer following a series of adverse rulings in a related case.