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New York Law Journal

Prominent Bankruptcy Attorney, Former Anderson Kill Name Partner, Dies at 85

Arthur Olick, a longtime chair of Anderson Kill's bankruptcy and restructuring practice who advised parties in several law firm dissolutions, died Saturday from multiple sclerosis.
14 minute read

International Edition

France's Gide Loyrette Nouel To Close Its Hong Kong Office

France's Gide Loyrette Nouel will close its office in Hong Kong and launch a "best friends" relationship with local firm Howse Williams Bowers.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

Foreign Law Firms on Edge, Decamp as Venezuela Teeters on Chaos

Since January, the world has watched a slow-motion disaster unfolding in Venezuela, where critical shortages of food and medicine are fueling chaos. Inside the country, a handful of international firms are doing their best to ride out the crisis, while others have already jumped ship.
34 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 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

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