Only a few months ago, the future seemingly wasn’t looking rosy for Carl Oosterhouse, a former partner of Dickinson Wright. The Michigan Attorney Discipline Board found that he should have…
Lawyers in diverse practice areas ranging from labor law to bankruptcy are likely to benefit from legal changes that could be made during the Obama administration.
Updated: Three former bankruptcy partners of Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel, including the co-leader of the firm’s Distressed and Special Situations Lending Group, have departed for Gibson Dunn & Crutcher.
A Los Angeles law firm has agreed to pay $2.5 million to settle a malpractice claim by the trustee representing creditors in the bankruptcy of electronics company SonicBlue.
A federal judge in Chicago has ordered Ungaretti & Harris to disgorge more than $376,000 in bankruptcy fees because it failed to get periodic approval for the interim payments.
Billing rates for top lawyers at two law firms involved in the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy are $950 an hour, according to disclosure papers filed with the court.
A first-year associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton made an Excel reformatting error that mistakenly added 179 contracts to an agreement to buy Lehman Brothers assets, according to a…
Heller Ehrman’s dissolution plan makes optimistic predictions about its ability to collect accounts receivable and may overstate its assets, say analysts who are divided on whether the firm will be…
Nice work if you can get it: In a fee application filed yesterday in federal bankruptcy court in New York, one of the nation’s most renowned corporate bankruptcy law practice…
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