Murry

BACKGROUND

The original complaint was brought by plaintiff Elmer Murry, Jr., and his LLC, Draft Picks Limited Liability Company (the LLC), of which Murry was the sole member. The defendants are Michael J. Carras, Daniel A. Conforti, Ricky Grayson, and Draft Picks Management Group, LLC. The complaint alleged claims for fraud, cancellation of written instrument, rescission, imposition of constructive trust, conversion, breach of fiduciary duty, declaratory relief, and an accounting. The LLC was the holding company for Murry’s sports restaurant, Draft Picks Sports Grill. Murry retained the attorney defendants, Carras and Conforti, to represent him in a dispute with his business partner in another sports restaurant, Draft Picks Pizza Pub. Over the course of that representation, the attorney defendants gained access to confidential information about Murry’s businesses, which they used to defraud Murry out of his interest in the LLC.

2 Defendants Carras and Conforti learned that Murry owed $205,000 to a friend, John Adger, and that Murry was soliciting investors to invest in the LLC so he could pay off the loan. They also learned that the Sports Grill was very profitable, netting over…