Buca sues Faegre & Benson over botched eatery chain sale

Buca Inc. is suing Faegre & Benson for legal malpractice after losing millions of dollars on a botched restaurant chain sale.

Faegre represented Minneapolis-based Buca Inc., which operates Italian restaurant chain Buca di Beppo, on the 2006 sale of a struggling East Coast chain that it repurchased after learning that the original agreement was flawed, Buca said in its lawsuit.

Minneapolis-based Faegre, the largest law firm in Minnesota and soon to be one of the largest in the nation, denied wrongdoing.

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