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Breaking news and analysis related to law firm dissolution and partner and creditor disputes.
By Xiumei Dong | August 17, 2018
Archer Norris, a roughly 70-lawyer firm based in the East Bay with three other offices throughout California, is poised to close its doors.
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By Greg Land | August 6, 2018
A separate settlement between the two feuding firms involved in the FCA case means there will be no fee dispute.
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By Lizzy McLellan | July 31, 2018
Powell Trachtman is set to close its doors on Friday, and now all of the legacy firm's name lawyers have settled in at other law firms.
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By Scott Flaherty | July 16, 2018
In an amicus brief in a case that the Ninth Circuit referred to the D.C. Court of Appeals, the country's largest bar group said dissolved law firms should not be able to claim a property stake in unfinished client matters that travel with a partner to a new firm.
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By Christine Simmons | June 28, 2018
Already facing litigation over its Chicago office, defunct firm Sedgwick is now being sued by its Manhattan landlord for defaulting on payments.
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By Christine Simmons | June 28, 2018
Already facing litigation over its Chicago office, defunct firm Sedgwick is now being sued for $23 million by its Manhattan landlord for defaulting on payments.
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By Roy Strom | June 26, 2018
After closing its doors in January, former Am Law 200 firm Sedgwick is facing a suit alleging that the now-defunct firm didn't pay its bills on the way out of its Chicago office lease.
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By Roy Strom | June 26, 2018
After closing shop in January, the now-defunct San Francisco-based Am Law 200 firm faces a suit alleging that it didn't pay its bills on the way out of its Chicago office lease.
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By Greg Land | June 20, 2018
The settlement is the second one involving claims that now-defunct Columbus firm Hatcher, Stubbs, Land, Hollis & Rothschild and former partner Barry Vaught mishandled trusts worth tens of millions of dollars set up to benefit two scions of the Bill Heard Chevrolet franchise, which itself folded after declaring bankruptcy in 2008.
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By Lizzy McLellan | June 7, 2018
"Appellate lawyers are very deliberative types and we give things a lot of time and a lot of analysis," Horvitz & Levy's David Axelrad said.
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