Christine Simmons

April 18, 2014 | New York Law Journal

Among the five defendants in the SEC suit against former Dewey & LeBoeuf leaders, three have been indicted and have pleaded not guilty, including former chairman Steven Davis, former executive director Stephen DiCarmine and former chief financial officer Joel Sanders.

By Christine Simmons

2 minute read

April 16, 2014 | Law.com

A bankruptcy judge has eliminated some of Dewey & LeBoeuf's defenses to a suit filed by a former staff member claiming that firm layoffs in May 2012 violated Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Acts.

By Christine Simmons

2 minute read

April 16, 2014 | New York Law Journal

Several creditors of Jacoby & Meyers Bankruptcy LLP, including solo practitioners who claim the firm hasn't paid them for their appearance work, filed in the Southern District, but the firm says its New York location was only a satellite office and its operations are all in Chicago.

By Christine Simmons

2 minute read

April 15, 2014 | New York Law Journal

Brown Rudnick has rescinded offers to 10 associates scheduled to join the firm this fall. The firm had planned to hire 23 new associates, many of them in its New York and Boston offices.

By Christine Simmons

2 minute read

April 14, 2014 | New York Law Journal

A six-lawyer Brooklyn firm that assigned a law student and junior associate to a client's case has been barred from collecting its legal fee by a Brooklyn judge who said the firm's bills were "overly broad, padded, excessive and unreasonable."

By Christine Simmons

6 minute read

April 08, 2014 | New York Law Journal

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler has elected Lisa Cleary as its new cochair and managing partner, succeeding Robert LoBue, who has held that position for the last seven years. She will serve alongside William Cavanaugh Jr., another firm cochair.

By Christine Simmons

1 minute read

April 08, 2014 | New York Law Journal

In a highly acrimonious divorce between a Cadwalader partner and his wife, the partner has been allowed to keep most of the value of his partnership interest as a judge found the wife's conduct during the divorce contributed to the decline of his business assets.

By Christine Simmons

7 minute read

April 03, 2014 | New York Law Journal

Ex-partners targeted in clawback litigation declined to join a $71 million settlement struck in 2012 between 400 of their former colleagues and the Dewey bankruptcy estate. Although several have now settled, about 20 clawback suits are pending.

By Christine Simmons

2 minute read

April 03, 2014 | Law.com

Less than two months after a Seyfarth Shaw partner sued his former firm claiming it owed him a share of assets and profits, the firm has sued Seyfarth, claiming it "cherry picked" one of its major clients during acquisition talks for a merger that never materialized.

By Christine Simmons

4 minute read

April 02, 2014 | New York Law Journal

Caitlin Halligan, who left the Manhattan District Attorney's Office in January after four years of helping oversee more than 500 lawyers, joined Gibson Dunn & Crutcher this week as partner focusing on appellate litigation.

By Christine Simmons

2 minute read