The University of Nevada at Reno says it has been forced to spend about $1.7-millon on outside legal help to fend off a flurry of lawsuits filed by employees who are all represented by the same lawyer, according to a report on The Chronicle’s News Blog based on an article in the Reno Gazette-Journal.
“UNR said it’s the target of meritless complaints filed by disgruntled current or former employees with the help of an attorney who uses ‘abusive’ tactics,” the Gazette-Journal reported.
The lawyer, Jeff Dickerson, told the newspaper that the only thing “absurd and abusive” is how the university has wasted public money in what he called its attempts to cover up corruption.
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