A lawyer who got fired by his firm is gaining a measure of revenge by running a Web site in which he refers to his boss as “a used-car salesman with a law degree.” It gets even better than that.

As reported on  law.com, Edward Harrington Heyburn worked at the firm of Levinson Axelrod until he was fired in 2004. Let’s start by saying the parting was not amicable.

Heyburn started a Web site — http://levinsonaxelrod.net — dedicated to trashing his former employer. The site contains detailed stories of underhanded dealings by the firm and:

• calls  senior partner Richard Levinson “The Hypocrite Behind the Curtain”
• refers to another partner, David Wheaton, as a “used-car salesman with a law degree”
• describes firm bigwig Adam Rothenberg as “a man without friends”

The firm has hired another lawyer, Thomas Cafferty, to take legal action against Heyburn.

More of Heyburn’s allegations about Levinson Axelrod:

• Demands by the firm that Heyburn and others place the good of the firm ahead of family obligations, “including the birth of my son,” Heyburn wrote
• A refusal to close the firm’s New Jersey offices on on Sep. 11, 2001,  to allow employees to check on their loved ones and friends and cope with the day’s events

It goes on from there, including criticism of the firm’s lawyers who lost big cases.

So, what we have here is a legal firm hiring a lawyer to sue a lawyer who hates lawyers . Maybe that means they’ll leave the rest of us alone for a while.

Tags: Edward Heyburn, Levinson Axelrod