Christine Simmons

August 15, 2012 | Delaware Business Court Insider

DLA Piper is locked in a dispute with an energy executive who claims the firm acted as his company's "ghost counsel" after being ordered to withdraw from a case and continued to bill him.

By Christine Simmons New York Law Journal

5 minute read

July 19, 2012 | New York Law Journal

Litigation surrounding the dissolution of 12-attorney Arkin Kaplan Rice turned vitriolic this week, with accusations made in court papers that one partner left a threatening voicemail and another was involved in a "fists up physical altercation."

By Christine Simmons

6 minute read

February 22, 2013 | New York Law Journal

Lindsay Lohan's lawsuit against rapper Armando Perez, known as "Pitbull," has been dismissed, and the actress' attorney in Long Island has been fined $1,500 after the judge found evidence of plagiarism in her court papers.

By Christine Simmons

4 minute read

May 29, 2012 | New York Law Journal

As Dewey & LeBoeuf husbanded its remaining cash in the first stages of bankruptcy yesterday, creditors and lawyers representing parties in the bankruptcy mulled over how much of their unpaid bills would be covered. Not much was the conclusion of many.

By Sara Randazzo and Christine Simmons

11 minute read

March 16, 2012 | New York Law Journal

Attorney Gary Greenwald has swooped into the case of an accused madam of a New York brothel, while two other attorneys have withdrawn, including one who is still offering to put up his Tribeca loft to secure a $2 million bond for Anna Gristina's bail.

By Christine Simmons

4 minute read

July 08, 2013 | New York Law Journal

Four years after the Legislature eliminated the last vestiges of the Rockefeller Drug Laws and opted for a less punitive and more rehabilitative approach to addiction, the Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor reports a steady decrease in the percentage of defendants ending up in treatment.

By John Caher and Christine Simmons

9 minute read

March 05, 2012 | New York Law Journal

A Brooklyn hospital can directly sue an insurance company for delinquent patient charges, a state judge has ruled in what appears to be the first time a private right of action has been explicitly recognized under the statute.

By Christine Simmons

6 minute read

August 02, 2012 | New York Law Journal

An April 2012 report on alternative fee arrangements sponsored by LexisNexis and conducted by ALM Legal Intelligence found that one-fifth of approximately 140 law departments surveyed said they had instituted reverse auction or competitive bidding on high-volume and repetitive work.

By Christine Simmons

7 minute read

May 17, 2013 | New York Law Journal

Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Doris Ling-Cohan has reassigned a case to a different special referee after finding that judicial hearing officer Ira Gammerman modified her ruling and veered from court procedures.

By Christine Simmons

6 minute read

June 08, 2012 | Daily Report Online

A dispute among the three leaders of 19-lawyer Bryant Burgher Jaffe over an alleged conflict of interest has resulted in two partners suing the third, claiming he breached their partnership agreement by removing them from their positions in the firm without their votes.

By Christine Simmons

6 minute read