CONVICTED PR EXEC SUES OLD EMPLOYER.Byline: RICK ORLOV Staff Writer A former public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most executive convicted of overbilling the city and other clients by more than $300,000 filed suit Thursday against his one- time employer to recover $3million in legal fees. Doug Dowie, convicted in May of padding Bits or characters that fill up unused portions of a data structure, such as a field, packet or frame. Typically, padding is done at the end of the structure to fill it up with data, with the padding usually consisting of 1 bits, blank characters or null characters. See null and bit stuffing. invoices to the Department of Water and Power when he was head of the Fleishman-Hillard offices in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , said the company had promised to pay all his legal bills after insisting he hire the firm of Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher to represent him. "The principal attorneys assigned to him ... charged $665 an hour and $545 per hour ... and (Dowie) would not have retained them but for the promise that Fleishman-Hillard would pay their fees, inasmuch as in·as·much as conj. 1. Because of the fact that; since. 2. To the extent that; insofar as. inasmuch as conj 1. since; because 2. he would otherwise be wholly unable to afford such representation," the lawsuit said. The company paid Dowie's legal fees until he was indicted INDICTED, practice. When a man is accused by a bill of indictment preferred by a grand jury, he is said to be indicted. on federal charges in June 2005. "By then, (Dowie) had been fired from his job with Fleishman-Hillard, was impecunious im·pe·cu·ni·ous adj. Lacking money; penniless. See Synonyms at poor. [in-1 + pecunious, rich (from Middle English, from Old French pecunios, from Latin and financially unable to engage new counsel," the lawsuit said. "He thus was effectively forced to remain with Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher as his attorneys, despite the monumental debt which he immediately began to incur." Fleishman-Hillard agreed to pay the city $6million to settle the case against it, but it refused to continue to pay Dowie's attorneys, the suit said. Dowie and another Fleishman executive, John Stodder, were convicted after a five-week trial; Dowie was sentenced to 42months and Stodder to 15months in federal prison. Both are scheduled to begin serving their sentences in March. Dowie's suit also seeks an unspecified amount for emotional suffering and punitive damages Monetary compensation awarded to an injured party that goes beyond that which is necessary to compensate the individual for losses and that is intended to punish the wrongdoer. . Rich Jernstedt, a spokesman for Fleishman, said the company could not comment on the suit but that company officials believe they had acted properly with Dowie. rick.orlov(at)dailynews.com (213) 978-0390 |
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