Dive summary:

• Allied Waste is suing their appellate attorneys for negligence and breach of contract from their case in 2010 that cost Allied Waste and its BFI Waste Services subsidiary $7.2 million.
• The 2010 lawsuit resulted from a fire that destroyed a Thermal Plant in downtown Nashville, Tenn.
• Allied Waste claims the attorneys didn't communicate with them about a strategy before filing the appeal and held back expert testimony that was detrimental to the case.

From the article:

The lawsuit claims Mowles and Stevens were hired to observe the jury trial deciding Metro's suit against the waste companies and others in the fall of 2010. The attorneys were to scout potential issues that could be used in the appeals process.

Metro and its insurer were awarded $7.2 million at the trial related to the 2002 Thermal Plant fire. The Lewis King attorneys helped file the appeal for Allied and BFI, but the appeal was denied by the Tennessee Supreme Court on all counts. ...