Christine Simmons

March 31, 2014 | New York Law Journal

A day after ex-Dewey & LeBoeuf finance director Francis Canellas' guilty plea to second-degree grand larceny became public, the pleas of six other former firm employees who have admitted committing crimes related to Dewey's accounting practices were unsealed Friday.

By Julie Triedman and Christine Simmons

12 minute read

March 28, 2014 | The American Lawyer

A day after ex-Dewey & LeBoeuf finance director Francis Canellas' guilty plea to second-degree grand larceny became public, the pleas of six other former firm employees who have admitted committing crimes related to Dewey's accounting practices were unsealed Friday.

By Julie Triedman and Christine Simmons

13 minute read

March 28, 2014 | Law.com

As part of the investigation into alleged criminal conduct that led to Dewey & LeBoeuf's bankruptcy, the firm's former finance director Francis Canellas pleaded guilty to grand larceny in the second degree last month, according to documents unsealed Thursday in New York Supreme Court.

By Christine Simmons

8 minute read

March 26, 2014 | New York Law Journal

The Manhattan District Attorney's Office opposed The New York Times' request to unseal all records in the case against four former Dewey & LeBoeuf insiders, but is offering to open most files.

By Christine Simmons

2 minute read

March 26, 2014 | New York Law Journal

Creditors' attempts to force Jacoby & Meyers Bankruptcy LLP into bankruptcy are worrying similarly named firms that people will confuse them with the financially troubled entity.

By Christine Simmons

8 minute read

March 21, 2014 | New York Law Journal

Bankruptcy attorneys representing two of the criminally charged former Dewey & LeBoeuf leaders lost a bid to stay discovery of a trustee and a creditor's suit against their clients, as Southern District Bankruptcy Judge Martin Glenn made his intent clear Thursday.

By Christine Simmons

4 minute read

March 18, 2014 | New York Law Journal

A judge has refused to dismiss parts of a legal malpractice suit brought by an ex-client of Blank Rome who claims the law firm threw her "under the bus" when it simultaneously represented ex-husband's employer, Morgan Stanley, during her divorce.

By Christine Simmons

6 minute read

March 17, 2014 | New York Law Journal

Zuckerman Spaeder is representing Zachary Warren, the 29-year-old former client relations manager of Dewey & LeBoeuf who was criminally charged alongside three firm leaders.

By Christine Simmons

1 minute read

March 17, 2014 | New York Law Journal

For a second time, a judge has denied Boies Schiller & Flexner's summary judgment motion seeking legal fees against a former client—family members of Modell's Sporting Goods scion Mitchell Modell.

By Christine Simmons

2 minute read

March 14, 2014 | New York Law Journal

A former longtime client of Proskauer Rose has re-filed a malpractice suit claiming the firm's advice cost it hundreds of millions of dollars in tax liability.

By Christine Simmons

2 minute read