Overview
- The Chrisleys filed the malpractice lawsuit in federal court on June 5, 2026, naming Balch & Bingham LLP and attorney Chris Anulewicz and asking for compensatory damages in excess of $25 million and a jury trial.
- The core claim says the firm failed to timely move to suppress ‘derivative’ evidence—emails, bank records and financial documents—linked to a 2017 Georgia Department of Revenue warehouse search that a judge later found unlawful.
- Their complaint accuses lead counsel Anulewicz of lacking meaningful criminal-defense experience and of steering the couple into a $75,000 investment in a relative’s startup while still representing them, which the suit frames as a conflict of interest.
- The Chrisleys tie the alleged malpractice to concrete harms: lost TV and endorsement income, damaged reputations, legal costs, and family separation during the period they served prison sentences before receiving presidential pardons in 2025.
- Defendants have said they have not yet been served and that the claims will be vigorously defended, leaving the case in its early civil-litigation phase with discovery and possible trial to follow.