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Civil Litigation

Dec. 12, 2023

LegalMatch asks judge to dismiss lawsuit by co-founder

“This demurrer concerns an ambiguous derivative shareholder action against LegalMatch by an individual who avoids referring to herself as a current shareholder,” LegalMatch’s attorney, Thomas A. Woods of Stoel Rives LLP, wrote in a demurrer.

LegalMatch.com asked a San Francisco judge Monday to dismiss a lawsuit brought by its co-founder, Anna Ostrovsky.

Ostrovsky claimed her business partner falsified financial documents to avoid repaying $3 million he sent to an offshore company in the Philippines.

Attorneys for LegalMatch and the company’s co-founder, Dmitry Shubov, argued that Ostrovsky’s lawsuit was “ambiguous” with regard to the relief sought a...

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