Sara Randazzo

March 29, 2013 | New York Law Journal

An attorney representing Ropes & Gray insisted at a March 27 hearing that the firm fired a 63-year-old female partner in fall 2010 because it no longer made economic sense to keep her, not because it was discriminating or retaliating against her.

By Sara Randazzo

6 minute read

May 31, 2012 | The American Lawyer

The U.S. trustee's office has appointed two committees to steer Dewey & LeBoeuf's unsecured creditors through the bankrupt law firm's Chapter 11 proceedings.

By Sara Randazzo

5 minute read

October 22, 2013 | The American Lawyer

Pending court approval, Howrey trustee Allan Diamond can count on adding another $2.02 million to the defunct law firm's coffers after reaching settlements this week with Covington & Burling, Kirkland & Ellis, Shearman & Sterling and 11 former Howrey partners.

By Sara Randazzo

5 minute read

September 18, 2012 | New York Law Journal

CitiBank is forcefully denying allegations by a former lawyer with the now-defunct Dewey & LeBoeuf that the bank conspired with leaders of the firm to woo lateral partners with a Ponzi-like scheme aimed at paying off Dewey's debts to the bank through a steady flow of capital contribution payments.

By Sara Randazzo

5 minute read

April 15, 2013 | Law.com

In new filings made in connection with former associate John Ray III's bias suit against it, Ropes & Gray explains why barring Ray from entering its Boston headquarters and refusing to provide him with a promised recommendation letter were not acts of retaliation prompted by his decision to complain to the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission about how the firm had treated him.

By Sara Randazzo

6 minute read

June 12, 2012 | The American Lawyer

A 14-month string of losses that has also seen partners head to Am Law firms Adams and Reese, Bradley Arant, and Littler Mendelson continues with 37 Music City lawyers leaving Chattanooga, Tennessee-based Miller & Martin for rival Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens and Cannada.

By Sara Randazzo

5 minute read

July 16, 2012 | New York Law Journal

A proposed settlement presented July 11 to former Dewey & LeBoeuf partners asking them to chip in between $25,000 and $3 million apiece in exchange for a waiver of liability related to the bankrupt law firm is already meeting serious resistance, with initial reactions ranging from skepticism to anger.

By Sara Randazzo

5 minute read

September 14, 2012 | The American Lawyer

The back-and-forth between Citibank and a former Dewey & LeBoeuf partner who allegedly owes the bank $210,000 continued this week, with the bank asserting in court filings that it did not conspire with former Dewey leaders to fraudulently induce partners to join the firm and that it was up to those partners to assess Dewey's financial condition.

By Sara Randazzo

6 minute read

August 24, 2011 | Daily Report Online

Few lawyers can claim to have helped free a convicted murderer from prison. For Ropes Gray partner Stephen Braga, the accomplishment now peppers his rsum twice.Braga, a white-collar criminal defense litigator, played a pivotal role in arriving at the unusual and unexpected legal maneuver that last week resolved the controversial case involving a trio of Arkansas men known collectively as the West Memphis Three.

By Sara Randazzo

4 minute read

March 20, 2013 | The American Lawyer

Douglas Arntsen, a onetime real estate and commercial litigation attorney at Crowell & Moring serving up to 12 years in prison for embezzling $10.7 million in client escrow funds, can no longer practice law in New York, a court ruled this week. The disbarment ends a troubling chapter for his former firm.

By Sara Randazzo

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