Anthony Lin

February 08, 2006 | Law.com

The judge presiding over Adelphia Communications' bankruptcy has denied a request to appoint a special examiner to determine whether Boies, Schiller & Flexner violated the bankruptcy code by failing to disclose that some of its lawyers, including children of senior partner David Boies, were financially interested in litigation support companies the firm recommended to Adelphia. The cable TV company had asked Boies Schiller to resign as special litigation counsel for failing to disclose those interests.

By Anthony Lin

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June 23, 2008 | Law.com

A Manhattan appeals court has narrowed the scope of discovery Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld can seek from the former hedge fund managers who are suing the law firm for fraud and legal malpractice. James McBride and Kevin Larson, the former principals of Veras Investment Partners, sued Akin Gump for more than $4 billion in damages last year, claiming the firm advised it that the "late trading" activities which made the fund a target of former New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer were legal.

By Anthony Lin

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February 07, 2005 | New York Law Journal

By Anthony Lin

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June 13, 2006 | New York Law Journal

By Anthony Lin

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April 16, 2008 | National Law Journal

A New York judge has allowed a legal malpractice suit alleging faulty due diligence work by Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker to proceed. Investor Ronald Katz hired the law firm to represent him in connection with a $3 million investment in a company called Humitech. Katz claims the lawyers failed to determine that Humitech was not the beneficial owner of certain mineral rights he expected to obtain, and that other collateral in the form of stocks was encumbered.

By Anthony Lin

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July 07, 2008 | New York Law Journal

By Anthony Lin

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June 06, 2007 | National Law Journal

LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae has launched a New York-based entertainment practice, to be led by L. Londel McMillan, who is joining LeBoeuf from his own firm, the McMillan Group. McMillan has represented pop icons Prince, Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder, among others.

By Anthony Lin

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June 27, 2008 | Law.com

The New York Court of Appeals on Wednesday revived a legal malpractice suit against law firm Larossa, Mitchell & Ross over its representation of personal injury lawyer Morris J. Eisen, who was found to have defrauded New York City by fabricating evidence in tort cases. The accusations and subsequent prosecution of lawyers and investigators for Morris J. Eisen PC -- once one of New York's top personal injury firms -- was a major scandal in the legal community.

By Anthony Lin

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March 29, 2007 | National Law Journal

Epstein, Becker & Green has recruited seven real estate lawyers from the New York office of Roseland, N.J.'s Lowenstein Sandler. The group is headed by Adrian Zuckerman, the former head of Lowenstein Sandler's New York real estate practice. Epstein Becker has 380 lawyers in 11 offices nationwide.

By Anthony Lin

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January 24, 2011 | Law.com

Quarles & Brady has opened a Shanghai representative office, the Milwaukee-based firm's eighth and its first outside the U.S. The move suggests China remains a draw for regional U.S. firms, despite international firms and their Chinese counterparts finding the market extremely competitive.

By Anthony Lin

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