The lawsuits against Compass just keep rolling in. New Jersey-based Christie’s International Real Estate is the latest to accuse Compass of gaining access to trade secrets through the recruitment of former Christie’s team leader Maryanne Elsaesser and her three team members Mathew Chapman, Rhonda Battifarano and Michele Kowal, according to a “This is a case about former Christie’s independent contractors who violated their contractual obligations owed to Christie’s, with the tortious assistance and unlawful encouragement of their new broker Compass,” the May 4 filing with the Superior Court of New Jersey read. Christie’s claimed Elsaesser encouraged her agents to violate non-disclosure, non-competition, and non-solicitation agreements in March 2021, as she brokered a move to Compass. Before her resignation in April, Elsaesser arranged for Chapman, Battifatano and Kowal to join her at Compass and allegedly began to solicit other Christie’s employees and agents to do the same.