"Experts expressed astonishment..."

"Lobbyists switch jobs all the time and usually take their clients with them. But a lawsuit in D.C.'s federal district court is challenging that practice, in a way that could rock the capital.
Without fanfare late last year, the Washington Group, a lobbying subsidiary of the multinational advertising firm Omnicom Group, sued one of its senior vice presidents for filching corporate clients when he jumped to another firm. The plaintiff is seeking more than half a million dollars in damages. U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton has refused three times to prevent the transfer of clients. But the case against Harry A. Sporidis, now lobbying for the law firm Powell Goldstein, continues to march toward trial. Experts expressed astonishment that the dispute had gone to court at all."

-- The Washington Post, January 15, 2008