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Law Firms Hurl Ethics Accusations At Each Other In Tubi Subscribers Litigation
Last July, two women dressed in black suits showed up at the front door of Lumeah Deschamps’ mother’s house. One of them said she was an FBI agent from Washington, DC.
Deschamps refused to open the door, but through the window the women kept asking about an arbitration demand she filed against streaming service Tubi Inc.
“I was scared,” Deschamps said in a recent declaration attached to a lawsuit her lawyers at Keller Postman filed in December against Tubi and its law firm Jenner & Block. “The whole episode was alarming.”
The incident is one of several cited in Keller Postman’s suit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, that alleges Jenner & Block hired a former FBI special agent to interview class members who had opted out of a $19.99 million settlement with Tubi to arbitrate their claims. Keller Postman, which represented the arbitrating plaintiffs, along with nearly 24,000 other class members, is well-known for pursuing mass arbitrations.
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