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Slideshow: The Top Lateral Moves of 2017

In 2017, law firms looked to pick up large groups for moves that aided expansions and helped bolster specific practice areas, one of which was a new—timely—practice area: institutional responses to sexual and gender-based harassment and misconduct.
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The Recorder

$64M Malpractice Verdict Against Ex-Dickstein Partner Still Ensnares Firm, Insurers

Dickstein may be long gone, and a partner accused of malpractice there died in 2013, but that didn't stop new litigation from erupting this month over who should foot the bill.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Finally Finishing Unfinished Business?

In his Law Firm Partnership Law column, Arthur J. Ciampi discusses how the recent case 'Heller Ehrman LLP v. Davis Wright Tremane LLP' impacts lawyer mobility and clients choice of counsel.
8 minute read

New York Law Journal

Defunct Dickstein Shapiro Sues Reed Smith, Ex-Client Estee Lauder Over Fees

The shuttered law firm says it's owed nearly $1.5 million for legal work it performed before its collapse.
3 minute read

The American Lawyer

Jones Day's MP on Why Firm's Fight Against Heller Trustee Was Good for Clients

Jones Day's managing partner, Stephen Brogan, explains why his firm refused to settle with the trustee of bankrupt law firm Heller and why his firm's win last week in the California Supreme Court is good for clients.
5 minute read

Litigation Daily

Daily Dicta: A Parting Gift from Heller Ehrman

Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe is no more--but the firm will be remembered in part for an important California Supreme Court decision on the property interest of dissolved law firms.
6 minute read

The Recorder

'Unfinished Business' Claims Zapped by California Supreme Court in Heller Case

In a closely watched law firm bankruptcy case, the court on Monday held that dissolving firms don't have a property interest in unfinished hourly fee matters that departing partners take with them to new firms.
5 minute read

The Recorder

Ninth Circuit Routes 'Unfinished Business' Question in Howrey Bankruptcy to DC Court of Appeals

The Ninth Circuit asked if partners who leave a dissolving firm have a duty to account for profits earned post-departure on matters subject to hourly billing under D.C. law.
2 minute read

The American Lawyer

Quinn-Gay Email Dust-Up Is Tame Compared With These Firm Splits

A lot of lawyers fail to pull off amicable divorces.
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

Ex-Dewey & LeBoeuf Executive DiCarmine Reaches Tentative SEC Settlement

DiCarmine was acquitted in 2017 at a second jury trial of fraud and conspiracy charges related to the collapse of the firm five years prior.
2 minute read

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