Lawsuits filed over documents telecom says are held 'hostage.'
Most small-business owners can only dream about landing a Fortune 15 company as a client.
But for Lisa McComb, owner of a San Antonio legal-discovery business called elumicor, the dream was reality.
Elumicor electronically stored hundreds of millions of pages of legal documents belonging to AT&T. It was a lucrative arrangement for elumicor, which received at least 4 cents for each page plus an annual hosting fee.
Then, without warning, AT&T notified elumicor in December that it was terminating the 10-year relationship.
The letter has sparked a nasty dispute, complete with accusations that McComb was holding AT&T's records “hostage” for an “exorbitant ransom,” a request to find her in criminal contempt, the threat of her arrest and, finally, elumicor's bankruptcy.
McComb accuses AT&T of trying put elumicor out of business. Added her lawyer, Randall Pulman: “You've got a corporate behemoth that's doing everything it can to squish her.”
A spokesman for AT&T Management Services LP, the AT&T entity enmeshed in the spat, said it had no comment.
The dispute underscores the perils a small company faces when it's dependent on one client for nearly all of its business. Elumicor generated more than $5 million in revenue last year, with AT&T accounting for all but about $70,000, McComb said.
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Source: mysanantonio.com
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