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Law firm capitalizes on its diversity
Big law firms have embraced the idea of diversity, but they still are struggling to deliver the goods, even as corporate America is pressuring its outside counsel to use more women and lawyers of color.Henry N. "Hank" Adorno is capitalizing on the sluggish reaction of big law to the growing corporate demand for diversity by transforming his firm, Adorno Yoss, into the largest minority-owned law firm in the nation.Law Firm Capitalizes on Its Diversity
Big law firms have embraced the idea of diversity, but they still are struggling to deliver the goods, even as corporate America is pressuring its outside counsel to use more women and lawyers of color. Henry N. "Hank" Adorno is capitalizing on the sluggish reaction of big law to the growing corporate demand for diversity by transforming his firm, Adorno & Yoss in Atlanta, into the largest minority-owned law firm in the nation.Founder of Largest US Minority Owned Firm Exits, His Name Coming Off the Marquee
Adorno & Yoss, one of Florida?s largest law firms, became Yoss LLP on Monday as firm co-founder and chairman Henry "Hank" Adorno stepped down following the suspension of his law license.Adorno & Yoss acquires Houston firm specializing in immigration, employment law
Miami-based Adorno & Yoss has acquired a prominent, Hispanic-owned 11-attorney Houston law firm specializing in global immigration and employment law. The acquisition of Monty Partners, led by Jacob Monty, follows a similar acquisition by Adorno & Yoss of a small law firm in Seattle nine months ago.Legal woes mount for defunct Yoss firm
The remnants of Adorno Yoss face legal fallout in Atlanta, two months after it shut down in the wake of the suspension of the law license of founding partner Henry "Hank" Adorno by the Florida Supreme Court.The defunct firm's landlord at Two Midtown Plaza has filed suit in Fulton County State Court against what was in the end called Yoss LLC, seeking nearly a half-million dollars in unpaid rent and other costs.Breaking Away From Firm Racked by Defections, Cash Woes, National Firm Is Born
Princeton's Wong Fleming, which last year merged into what was then the country's largest minority-owned law firm, Adorno & Yoss, now Yoss, is now stepping out onto the national stage on its own.Lawyers Break Away From Troubled Firm to Maintain Minority-Owned Status
After merging last year with Adorno & Yoss, New Jersey's Wong Fleming is now re-emerging as a 45-lawyer firm with a national presence. Daniel Fleming, Wong Fleming's managing partner, said they left the firm now known as Yoss because Yoss was at risk of losing its minority-owned status.Federal Judge Blasts Attorneys for 'Bad Faith'
In a damning order, a federal judge has found that attorneys Cary Ichter and Guy H. Weiss, the law firm of Adorno & Yoss and their former client "blatantly misrepresented" the law, acted with "dishonesty" and in "bad faith," and, in Ichter's case, "violated the integrity of the judicial system." As a result, a federal magistrate has recommended that the attorneys and their client, the plaintiff in a highly contested trade dress action, pay nearly $312,000 in attorney fees, costs and expenses to the defendants.Trending Stories
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