Attorney David Hodak – the head of Gross & Co. has resigned from his position. In a letter distributed by Attorney Hodak to the seniors of Gross & Co., in which he announced his departure from the firm and accused his partners of treason, he agitated the largest law firm in Israel. Among other things, Hodak attacked the management in the letter: “If this is not treason, I don’t know what treason is.”
● After the problematic statement: Attorney David Hodak resigns from Gross & Co. and accuses his partners of treason
● Attorney David Hodak also called for violence at a gathering of employees of the largest law firm in Israel
Hodek’s criticism is that they disowned him, after his recent problematic remarks at the Bar Association conference, following which an investigation was even opened against him. “People are ready to fight with weapons. So everybody’s shocked – what, how do you say something like that? I say, if we have to get to it, and if I’m dragged there, that’s what I’ll do… They’re going for it with all their might, and we’re going to resist it with all The power,” he said then.
In the hours after the extreme announcement, a tense silence prevailed in the office. The shocked management of Gross & Co. refused to comment and comment, and had difficulty understanding what would actually happen with Hodak.
In a letter distributed today, Hodek wrote, among other things, that “I will leave the offices in Azrieli and move to the offices in the Electra building, as was offered to me. I cannot continue to stay in a place whose leaders have poisoned its values.” From his words, it seems that he plans to remain co-chairman of the unified office and sit in Goldfarb Seligman’s building. In September, Hodak is supposed to retire as well, having reached the age of 70, but the winds are stormy and hot in the office.
Hodak’s blatant and public attack on the management of Gross’s office left the senior officials of the office hurt to the core, at a time when they have to respond to endless messages from clients and colleagues who were amazed at Hodak’s washing of dirty laundry outside. On the other hand, Hodak was hurt by the fact that the firm’s managing partners disavowed his words at the Bar Association conference without informing him of this in advance.
In the middle, there is the Mekorot company, a client of the Gros office, which was mentioned in a very unfavorable light in Hodak’s public letter.
According to Hodek, the senior partners in the firm disowned him because of a desire not to lose a client of the firm. On the way, Hodek scolded the client: “This, for the threat of a handful of dollars from the company Mekorot, which is the client in which many hours are invested and yields the most unprofitable result in the office.”
Hodak also referred in his widely distributed letter to inquiries from the Mekorot company that were received by Gross’s office in response to his words at the Bar Association conference, and presented Mekorot Haor in a negative light. As mentioned, this is a client of the Gross office.
The firm estimates that the bad blood and the unprecedented step of washing the dirty laundry outside while negatively mentioning a large client of the firm, will not allow continued joint work, even if Hodak decides to exile himself and work from the Electra building where the Goldfarb Seligman firm that merged with the Gross & Co. firm is located.