Using explosive language and personal attacks, the Jones Day law firm unloaded on Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan in a letter responding to the mayor's public threats to sue the firm for allegedly misleading him during the city's bankruptcy, the Detroit Free Press reported today. In a 13-page letter sent to the city on Feb. 23, Jones Day Managing Partner Stephen Brogan dismissed Duggan's comments as those of a "political hack" who is using the threat of a lawsuit to distance himself from the bankruptcy. Brogan's letter also attempts to dismantle any legal argument the city would use to sue Jones Day for its performance as Detroit's lead bankruptcy counsel. Brogan's detailed rebuttal of the city's claims against Jones Day is based on a draft lawsuit the city shared with the firm prior to Duggan's comments. "Filing this action would place the mayor in a long line of corrupt Detroit politicians who placed personal political ambition above an objective determination of the city's best interest," Brogan wrote in his letter, obtained by the Free Press through the Freedom of Information Act.
