Sara Randazzo

March 05, 2013 | Law.com

Less than a week after winning approval of its liquidation plan, the bankrupt Dewey & LeBoeuf estate has struck a deal under which it will collect $575,000 from Paul Hastings for work that firm took on when it hired four former Dewey partners. Two of those attorneys, meanwhile, have agreed to repay the Dewey estate a combined total of $1 million as part of a larger partner settlement plan.

By Sara Randazzo

4 minute read

June 19, 2012 | The Recorder

By Sara Randazzo

3 minute read

January 02, 2013 | The American Lawyer

Attorneys and others helping to guide Dewey & LeBoeuf through Chapter 11 have laid out exactly how many hours, and at what cost, they have spent steering the defunct law firm's estate through its first five months of bankruptcy.

By Sara Randazzo

6 minute read

March 20, 2013 | Law.com

Chadbourne & Parke, a charter member of The Am Law 100, is in danger of falling off the list of the nation's 100 top-grossing law firms after seeing its gross revenue decline 5.1 percent last year, to $290.5 million, according to The American Lawyer's reporting. The firm's net income, meanwhile, tumbled 14.4 percent, to $89 million, and its profits per partner slid 6.1 percent, to $1.24 million. Revenue per lawyer, on the other hand, rose 3.3 percent, to $780,000.

By Sara Randazzo

6 minute read

October 09, 2012 | The American Lawyer

Tuesday's ruling means that the Dewey & LeBoeuf bankruptcy will be the first in which a major law firm manages to resolve claims against a majority of its former partners within mere months of its demise.

By Sara Randazzo

6 minute read

January 22, 2013 | New York Law Journal

Nearly two years after Howrey went under, the trustee overseeing the defunct firm's Chapter 11 bankruptcy is ramping up his efforts to recover tens of millions of dollars from former partners and the firms they moved to.

By Sara Randazzo

5 minute read

November 11, 2011 | Law.com

Three years after declaring its intention to launch an office in Beijing, Proskauer Rose has finally moved in. Initially, about five attorneys from the firm's Hong Kong office will relocate to Beijing; together, the two offices will focus on private equity, M&A and capital markets matters.

By Sara Randazzo

3 minute read

August 02, 2013 | The American Lawyer

Over the past decade, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher lawyers have filed dozens of suits against public bodies —many of them targeting New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration—as part of a program aimed at assisting overmatched neighborhood groups. Is the firm boosting good government or just playing politics?

By Sara Randazzo

10 minute read

May 31, 2012 | Daily Business Review

Creditors and lawyers representing parties in the Dewey & LeBoeuf bankruptcy mull over how much of their unpaid bills would be covered. Not much, apparently.

By Sara Randazzo and Christine Simmons

11 minute read

January 18, 2012 | The American Lawyer

By Sara Randazzo

5 minute read