Pierce | Pierce Bainbridge PHILADELPHIA – A Philadelphia attorney alleges that improper conduct on the part of Pierce Bainbridge founder John M. Pierce, in the form of threatening an unauthorized legal malpractice suit, was done in an attempt to notch a dismissal in a fee-sharing dispute matter. The saga starts with a 2017 lawsuit filed by Lenwood Hamilton, a former professional wrestler and football player, which claimed that the Augustus “Cole Train” Cole character featured in the Gears of War video game series unfairly appropriated his likeness. Hamilton’s lawsuit targeted Microsoft, developer Epic Games and the voice actor for the Cole character, Lester Speight. There was a connection between Speight and Hamilton, when the two did business together in the late-1990s. Speight made appearances for Hamilton’s family-oriented wrestling promotion, Soul City Wrestling. At the time, the plaintiff’s wrestling alter-ego was “Hard Rock Hamilton.”