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Unfinished Business: The Continuing Impact of 'Jewel v Boxer'

Like any other business, law firms sometimes fail. While the failures of large law firms are well-publicized, smaller law firms can be just as or even more susceptible to failure, as the unexpected departure of the firm's most profitable partner can be devastating to a small firm.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Amid Firm Closure, Rhoads & Sinon Groups Find Perch at Barley Snyder, Stevens & Lee

Harrisburg-based Rhoads & Sinon is closing after 82 years.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

SEC, Former Dewey & LeBoeuf CFO Appear to Settle Civil Case

Papers filed on Dec. 28 by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission indicate that the regulator has resolved its proceedings against Joel Sanders. A similar agreement was unable to be reached with former Dewey & LeBoeuf executive director Stephen DiCarmine.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Rhoads & Sinon Seeks 'Alliance' After Year of Departures

The Harrisburg law firm lost more than a third of its lawyers this year.
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

Dozens of Law Firms Called It Quits in 2017

The pace of law firm dissolutions will likely keep up in the new year, said industry observers, as the same challenging market conditions prevail.
7 minute read

The American Lawyer

Sedgwick Sees 80-Strong Team Head for UK Law Firm

Clyde & Co is poised to pick up 15 partners and up to 80 lawyers and staffers from Sedgwick as the San Francisco-based Am Law 200 firm prepares to close its doors.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Orrick Grows Litigation Ranks by Absorbing Boutique

In all, 15 lawyers from Morvillo LLP will join the New York and Washington, D.C., offices of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe on Jan. 1, including seven partners, three counsel and five associates. For Orrick, it's the firm's largest addition of litigators in the last nine years.
7 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Nelson Levine Ex-Chair Renews Plea for Partner Arbitration

Michael Nelson alleges his ex-partners took too much money and left too much debt when they departed.
9 minute read

The Recorder

Gordon Rees Snags Nine-Lawyer Sedgwick Team

The pending demise of Sedgwick has resulted in a maritime group that the firm recruited nearly two years ago decamping for Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani.
3 minute read

The Recorder

CA Supreme Court Weighs Key Matter in Heller Bankruptcy

In a case stemming from Heller Ehrman's bankruptcy a decade ago, the California Supreme Court grappled with a matter of California law that could…
5 minute read

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