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NEW YORK Lawyers for Deutsch Inc., agency chairman Donny Deutsch and company CEO Linda Sawyer filed motions last week to dismiss the lawsuit brought against them by their former colleague Steve Dworin.
Dworin, who left Deutsch in 1994, filed the suit in March in Superior Court in Union County, N.J., seeking some $56 million in damages.
The filing stems from a “non-disparagement” agreement Dworin and Deutsch had following the former’s departure from the ad agency. Dworin claims a breach of contract occurred 11 years later in Donny Deutsch’s 2005 book, Often Wrong, Never in Doubt.
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