Overview
- Lawsuit filed Oct. 8 in California state court alleges legal malpractice, invasion of privacy, and defamation.
- Clement Souyri, administrator of late writer Travis (Tyler) Flores’s estate, is the plaintiff.
- The filing asserts Freedman "traded up" from Flores to Justin Baldoni, then revealed privileged information and misrepresented Flores’s case after Flores died.
- Souyri also submitted a formal complaint to the California State Bar in July.
- Freedman represented Flores in a 2021 suit over Five Feet Apart that settled, later represented Baldoni in a $400 million defamation case dismissed in June, and neither he nor Baldoni has commented.