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New Jersey Law Journal

No Vicarious Liability for Partner Where LLP Lacked Tail Coverage

The requirement for a law firm organized as a limited liability partnership to maintain malpractice insurance does not extend to the period when a firm is winding up operations and has ceased to provide legal services, the Supreme Court has ruled.
8 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

No Vicarious Liability for Partner Where LLP Lacked Tail Coverage

The requirement for a law firm organized as a limited liability partnership to maintain malpractice insurance does not extend to the period when a firm is winding up operations and has ceased to provide legal services, the Supreme Court has ruled.
8 minute read

New York Law Journal

Dewey Papers Allege Sources of DA's Interest in Firm Finances

Newly filed court papers in the Dewey & LeBoeuf criminal case attempt to answer a central question dogging the indicted executives: Who pressed the Manhattan district attorney to investigate Dewey's finances amid its 2012 collapse?
17 minute read

The American Lawyer

Dewey Case Memo Calls Birth of DA's Case “Troubling”

A defense attorney representing former Dewey & LeBoeuf CFO Joel Sanders suggested in a court filing that the criminal investigation of the now-defunct firm's former chairman "was pressed by" an ex-partner and a former top prosecutor in the Manhattan D.A.'s Office.
21 minute read

Daily Business Review

Naples-based Goede Adamczyk Adds Boca Raton Office With Merger

Goede, Adamczyk, DeBoest & Cross has absorbed the Boca Raton firm McClosky, D'Anna & Dieterle and opened a new location in Boca Raton.
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

Firm Drops Suit Over NYC Sublease Dispute

Sullivan & Worcester, which sued Dickstein Shapiro for breach of a sublease agreement, has dropped its lawsuit against the now-defunct firm.
13 minute read

The American Lawyer

World's First Publicly Traded Law Firm Won't Go Bankrupt

Slater & Gordon, an Australian plaintiffs shop that became the world's first publicly traded law firm in 2007, has reached a $630 million debt refinancing deal with lenders to avert a potential bankruptcy filing Down Under.
5 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Feds Charge Former Conn. Bankruptcy Attorney With Embezzlement

A longtime former New Haven bankruptcy attorney who recently resigned from the bar over allegations of mishandling client funds is now facing a federal criminal charge. Peter Ressler, 68, of Woodbridge, was charged April 25 with embezzlement of debtors' funds, according to the Connecticut U.S. Attorney's Office.
9 minute read

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