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Ex-Nelson Levine Chair Battles Ex-Partners Over Firm Breakup

The ex-chairman of the now dissolved Pennsylvania-based firm Nelson Brown & Co., formerly known as Nelson Levine de Luca & Hamilton, wants to take his former partners to arbitration. For what exactly is still unclear.
4 minute read

Daily Report Online

Savannah Legal Community Prepares to Evacuate Ahead of Irma

Savannah firms are battening down the hatches in preparation for Hurricane Irma. Along with other businesses, the city's two largest firms, HunterMaclean…
5 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Partner Accused of Stealing $2M Moves to Dissolve Law Firm

A filing claims it's no longer practical for the partners at McHugh, Chapman & Vargas to work together due to allegations of abuse.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Cellino & Barnes Earning Plenty Despite Breakup Moves

Both Stephen Barnes and Ross Cellino have received profit distributions of $7 million this year despite Cellino's filing a lawsuit asking for dissolution of the personal injury firm in May.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Cellino Denies Poaching, Asks for Receivership in Firm Dissolution

Erie County Supreme Court Justice Deborah Chimes denied an application for a preliminary injunction filed by partner Stephen Barnes in the dissolution of Buffalo-based personal-injury firm Cellino & Barnes and vacated a temporary restraining order she granted earlier this week.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Cellino & Barnes Breakup Gets Uglier With Poaching Claims

The dispute between the name partners of the well-known Buffalo-based personal injury firm just got nastier with state Supreme Court Justice Deborah Chimes signing a restraining order against Cellino for allegedly poaching lawyers and cases, according to an affidavit by Barnes.
3 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Being Prepared Can Save Attorneys Major Headaches in the Long Run

My daughter recently graduated high school. She is off to college in a couple of months, and I am setting up a cot at my Cohen and Wolf office, where I will be working the rest of my life to pay her tuition. She may want to be a doctor. Can I bill in the afterlife?
4 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

NJ Court Won't Hear Malpractice Suit Against Defunct Wolf Block

Defunct Philadelphia law firm Wolf Block's corporate registration in New Jersey and its acceptance of service there for a malpractice suit against it did not give a New Jersey court jurisdiction to hear the case, the Appellate Division has ruled.
13 minute read

Daily Business Review

Miami's Cohen Ruiz Closes Shop, Joins Midwestern Firm

Business advisory firm Cohen Ruiz is winding down operations after 17 years in practice and will join the Miami office of Cleveland-based McDonald Hopkins on July 10.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

Former Rosenthal Rasco Partner Sues Other Partners Over Firm Finances

Rosenthal Rosenthal Rasco Kaplan split has former partner asking for judicial dissolution.
6 minute read

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