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Longtime NH Law Firm Wiggin & Nourie to Close Its Doors After Losing 20 Lawyers

A longtime New Hampshire law firm that can trace its roots back to the 1860s and has helped launch the careers of a number of prominent prosecutors and judges will soon be closing its doors, after losing 20 lawyers since 2010. L. Jonathan Ross, who serves as president of Wiggin…

Jan 30, 2012 7:25 PM CST

Public Company to Buy UK Law Firm for $30M to Enhance Insurance Claims-Management Business

In what may be the first purchase of a law firm by a publicly traded United Kingdom company, Quindell Portfolio plans to acquire Silverbeck Rymer to expand the array of claims-management services it offers to insurers. It will pay 19.3 million pounds (about $30 million in U.S dollars) for the…

Jan 24, 2012 8:20 PM CST

Federal Jury Says TD Bank Must Pay $67M to Investors Swindled by Ex-Attorney Scott Rothstein

After four hours of deliberation, a federal jury in Miami yesterday decided that a South Florida bank must pay $67 million to a group of 27 investors swindled by then-attorney Scott Rothstein. The award, which includes $35 million in punitive damages, is based on a determination that officials of TD…

Jan 19, 2012 6:05 PM CST

Labor Law Firm Fisher & Phillips Plants Flags in Massachusetts and Tennessee

A growing national labor and employment boutique is expanding into Massachusetts and Tennessee with the additions of well-known senior practitioners from other firms to its attorney roster. Fisher & Phillips has brought in Joseph W. Ambash, who formerly co-chaired the practice group at the Boston office of Greenberg Traurig, to…

Jan 10, 2012 7:20 PM CST

Wilson Sonsini CEO to Step Down, Will Be Replaced by Two Managing Partners

The chief executive officer of a Silicon Valley legal powerhouse firm is stepping down and will be replaced by two senior partners working together to do the job. Douglas Clark, a member of the policy committee at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, and John T. Sheridan, who heads the firm’s…

Jan 10, 2012 5:54 PM CST

Imprisoned Ex-Attorney Says Cash Bribes, Call Girls at Law Firm Condo Aided $1.2B Ponzi Scheme

Cash bribes totaling at least $1 million and call girls helped him pull off a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme, a disbarred Florida lawyer said during a 10-day deposition in a federal courtroom in Miami last month. Now serving a 50-year prison term, Scott Rothstein said he hoped to win a…

Jan 9, 2012 6:44 PM CST

US Law Firm Mergers Rebound In 2011

In the strongest showing since 2008, last year saw 60 mergers and acquisitions among U.S. law firms. Three of the year’s biggest deals came in the fourth quarter, boosting the annual total 54 percent over 2010, Altman Weil MergerLine reports. Of the 17 new combinations, five involved the acquisition of…

Jan 5, 2012 6:59 PM CST

Client Sues Faegre & Benson, Says Standard Clause Omitted from Business Sale Contract Cost Millions

A former client has sued a Minnesota law firm for malpractice, alleging that a standard clause was left out of a $6.8 million sales contract for the Vinny T’s restaurant chain, exposing Buca Inc. to liability concerning transferred leases after the sale. The Hennepin County District Court suit says Buca…

Dec 22, 2011 7:15 PM CST

Convicted in $1.2B Ponzi Scheme, Scott Rothstein Said in Depo That 2 Law Firm Partners Benefited

Disbarred attorney Scott Rothstein pointed the finger at two ex-partners of his bankrupt South Florida law firm during a deposition, the Associated Press and South Florida Business Journal report. Convicted of running a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme while at the helm of the Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler law firm and sentenced…

Dec 22, 2011 12:19 AM CST

Indy’s Bingham McHale to Wed Ky.-Based Firm; Merged Bingham Greenebaum Will Have 250 Lawyers

A marriage of equals is to take place in January between Indiana’s Bingham McHale and Kentucky-based Greenebaum Doll & McDonald, the two law firms announced today. The combined law firm, which will have almost 250 lawyers, will be known as Bingham Greenbaum Doll, the Indianapolis Business Journal reports. “Each firm…

Dec 21, 2011 8:11 PM CST

Big Payday for Shareholder Suit Lawyers: Del. Chancery Court Awards $285M Attorney’s Fee

A near-record verdict for Southern Peru Copper Co. in a Delaware shareholder derivative suit has resulted in a monster payday for the company’s counsel. The $285 million earned by Pennsylvania-based Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check and Prickett, Jones & Elliott of Wilmington, Del., may be the highest amount ever awarded…

Dec 19, 2011 7:34 PM CST

Judge Kills Foreclosure Over Law Firm’s Late Verifications, Speculates re ‘Conflicted Robosigner’

A New York judge has dismissed a mortgage foreclosure case, with prejudice, because of a well-known law firm’s delay in submitting to the court verifications that it took reasonable steps to check the accuracy of documents filed on the lender’s behalf. The verifications, which have been routinely required in foreclosure…

Dec 13, 2011 6:49 PM CST

Stagnant Year-End Bonuses for BigLaw Associates Add Up to Smaller Percentage of Firm Profits

Perhaps it’s due to a perception by corporate clients that leading New York law firms, like Wall Street businesses, are raking in too much money in tough economic times. Perhaps it’s simply that greedy partners want to hog as much of their law firms’ profits as possible. But, whatever the…

Dec 9, 2011 3:25 PM CST

Long Island’s Frenkel Lambert Looks to Expand in Upstate NY After Baum Firm Collapse

Another New York law firm is moving in to fill in at least part of the upstate foreclosure practice gap left by the downfall of Steven J. Baum’s legal shop Long Island-based Frenkel Lambert Weiss Weisman & Gordon is looking for around 10,000 square feet of office space and expecting…

Dec 8, 2011 5:59 PM CST

Arnold & Porter to Acquire San Francisco’s 80-Attorney Howard Rice

Arnold & Porter will be adding 80 lawyers and a San Francisco office to its letterhead Jan. 1 with the acquisition of Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin. The two firms announced today that they have agreed to a merger, the Daily Journal (sub. req.) reports. Arnold & Porter…

Dec 6, 2011 9:16 PM CST

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