Tonya Mallory, the former CEO of Health Diagnostic Laboratory, sued LeClairRyan. In the lawsuit, Mallory alleges that LeClairRyan committed malpractice by giving her bad legal advice that she believes ultimately caused the demise of her company, Health Diagnostic Laboratory.
Plaintiff Alleges: 5+ Years of Bad Legal Advice
The lawsuit, filed in Richmond Circuit Court, alleges that Mallory received five years of bad legal advice that left her facing serious liabilities when her company failed. Mallory alleges in her lawsuit that co-founder of LeClairRyan, Dennis Ryan, helped her establish Health Diagnostic Laboratory as a company and that he later acted as her defense attorney when her previous employer, Berkeley Heartlab, sued her because she allegedly tried to take away some of Berkeley’s customers. Ryan left LeClairRyan in 2012 and became Health Diagnostic Laboratory’s executive vice president.
Tonya Mallory further alleges in her lawsuit that LeClairRyan advised her that her company could pay money in the form of “process and handling fees” to medical offices to reimburse their costs of collecting blood samples and sending them to Health Diagnostic Laboratory for testing.
