Korn/Ferry International, the world’s biggest executive-search firm, is embroiled in a bitter legal dispute over the dismissal of a top executive.
In a recent lawsuit, Robert A. Damon, Korn/Ferry’s former executive chairman of the Americas, alleges that he was fired in retaliation for complaints he made to board members about Chief Executive Gary Burnison’s treatment of several female colleagues. He also says he lost more than $1.7...