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Onetime Foreclosure King Facing Multiple Suits Now Turns to New Venture: Five Guys Burgers and Fries

At the top of his game as Florida’s unchallenged foreclosure king, David J. Stern had perhaps 100,000 cases and a back-office legal processing support operation that he sold for $60 million in 2010. Then came allegations of slipshod work and the firm’s sudden collapse last year, after Fannie Mae pulled…

Jan 27, 2012 9:45 PM CST

Ex-Client Sues Orrick for $95M, Says Law Firm Didn’t Explain Cancellation Provision in Loan Contract

A Dallas-based former client sued Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe yesterday in state court in Texas, claiming that it suffered $95 million in damages from a collapsed loan deal because of the law firm’s negligence. Investment company Highland Financial Partners says in the Dallas County suit that it wouldn’t have paid…

Jan 26, 2012 11:31 PM CST

Practice Group Leaders: Masters of the Legal Renaissance?

Before I left my job as general counsel at a software company, I was offered the chance to become general manager of a product group. Unlike my previous role, the GM job didn’t report to the CEO, but in corporate terms it was still viewed as more important than a…

Jan 25, 2012 10:33 PM CST

Law Firm Known as ‘Slavies’ Uses the Nickname in On-Campus Ad, Then Apologizes

A Canadian law firm informally known as “Slavies” to law students, due to its reputation of working them hard, decided to have a little fun with the moniker. Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg crossed out the D on its Davies logo in an on-campus recruiting ad in the student magazine…

Jan 25, 2012 7:59 PM CST

Ex-BigLaw Partner Accused of Faking Kidnap to Avoid DUI Case Gets 12 Months, Loses Driver’s License

A former partner of Allen & Overy and Macfarlanes has been sentenced to 12 months in prison for claiming to police he had been kidnapped in an apparent effort to avoid a possible driving-under-the-influence case after driving his Range Rover off the road. “I doubt a drink-drive conviction would have…

Jan 24, 2012 10:14 PM CST

Ex-Crowell Lawyer Held Without Bail in $2.5M Client Theft is Investigated re $21M More, Gov’t Says

A former Crowell & Moring lawyer accused of embezzling $2.5 million in escrowed client funds was arraigned on Friday in criminal court in Manhattan and ordered held without bail as a flight risk. Douglas Arntsen, 34, faces charges of grand larceny and scheming to defraud. He is also under investigation,…

Jan 23, 2012 5:52 PM CST

Ex-Prez of Ohio State Bar Inflated Law Firm Biz Expenses, Gets 1 Year in Federal Tax Case

A former president of the Ohio State Bar Association has been sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison after pleading guilty to falsifying federal tax returns. Under the sentence he received from a federal judge in Youngstown, Leslie W. “Les” Jacobs, 67, must also serve just under…

Jan 18, 2012 9:02 PM CST

Supreme Court Rules for Death-Row Inmate Whose BigLaw Lawyers Missed the Appeal Deadline

Alabama death-row inmate Cory Maples isn’t barred from appealing his conviction because of a blown appeals deadline caused by the departure of his BigLaw pro bono lawyers. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled 7-2 for Maples, finding there is cause to excuse the procedural default. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote…

Jan 18, 2012 4:05 PM CST

Fed’l Judge OKs Suit Over Alleged Cut-and-Paste Patent Work by Ropes & Gray Ex-Partner

A federal judge in Massachusetts has given a former client of Ropes & Gray the green light to proceed with a malpractice suit over claimed cut-and-paste work done on patent applications by a former partner whose company billed Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory about $10,000 for its work. Cold Spring contends…

Jan 18, 2012 12:16 AM CST

Ex-Partners’ Suit Says Law Firm Leader’s Affair with Another Practice Group Lawyer Forced Them Out

Two attorneys have sued a well-known Boston law firm and its managing partner, contending that his alleged affair with one plaintiff’s wife, who is also a lawyer there, cost both their jobs. Now partners at Nixon Peabody, estate planning attorneys Lawrence Cohen and Jay Rosenbaum say they were forced out…

Jan 14, 2012 12:07 AM CST

Tiger Mom Law Prof Didn’t ‘Click with the Law,’ But She Didn’t Stop Trying

The Yale law professor who wrote a book about “Tiger Mom” parenting says she didn’t like BigLaw and she didn’t like law school. Now, in an interview with the Careerist, Professor Amy Chua credits her own parents for teaching her the value of hard work, helping her succeed even when…

Jan 13, 2012 11:30 AM CST

Baker’s San Diego Outpost Continues to Shrink; Is Office Closing a Possibility?

Corrected: The San Diego office of Baker & McKenzie has only eight lawyers remaining after two of its intellectual property litigators jumped this week to Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo. Partners Howard Wisnia and James Conley are making the move, the Daily Journal (sub. req.) reports. At one…

Jan 12, 2012 1:40 PM CST

Senior Cravath Partner Makes Rare Lateral Leap

A senior partner of Cravath Swaine & Moore has made a rare lateral leap to another law firm. Jeffrey Smith, who founded the firm’s environmental practice group 20 years ago as a lateral hire (also unusual at Cravath), left his role as head of that practice group to join Crowell…

Jan 11, 2012 11:59 PM CST

Judge Axes $77M Suit Filed Against Kasowitz by Ex-Associate with ‘Superior Legal Mind’

Ruling from the bench yesterday, a New York judge dismissed a $77 million lawsuit filed against Kasowitz Benson Torres & Friedman by a former first-year associate who said he was unfairly fired by the firm in 2011. Because Gregory Berry signed a valid release after reaching a $27,000 severance agreement…

Jan 11, 2012 11:21 PM CST

Former BigLaw Partner Gets 2 Years in ‘Greek Tragedy’ Tax Evasion Case

John J. O’Brien told a federal judge in Manhattan today that he never expected to get away with failing to pay $2.5 million in tax on $10.8 million in income he earned as a partner at Sullivan & Cromwell. “I never believed for one minute that I was going to…

Jan 11, 2012 7:23 PM CST

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Large Firm

Onetime Foreclosure King Facing Multiple Suits Now Turns to New Venture: Five Guys Burgers and Fries

Ex-Client Sues Orrick for $95M, Says Law Firm Didn’t Explain Cancellation Provision in Loan Contract

Practice Group Leaders: Masters of the Legal Renaissance?

Law Firm Known as ‘Slavies’ Uses the Nickname in On-Campus Ad, Then Apologizes

Ex-BigLaw Partner Accused of Faking Kidnap to Avoid DUI Case Gets 12 Months, Loses Driver’s License

Ex-Crowell Lawyer Held Without Bail in $2.5M Client Theft is Investigated re $21M More, Gov’t Says

Ex-Prez of Ohio State Bar Inflated Law Firm Biz Expenses, Gets 1 Year in Federal Tax Case

Supreme Court Rules for Death-Row Inmate Whose BigLaw Lawyers Missed the Appeal Deadline

Fed’l Judge OKs Suit Over Alleged Cut-and-Paste Patent Work by Ropes & Gray Ex-Partner

Ex-Partners’ Suit Says Law Firm Leader’s Affair with Another Practice Group Lawyer Forced Them Out

Tiger Mom Law Prof Didn’t ‘Click with the Law,’ But She Didn’t Stop Trying

Baker’s San Diego Outpost Continues to Shrink; Is Office Closing a Possibility?

Senior Cravath Partner Makes Rare Lateral Leap

Judge Axes $77M Suit Filed Against Kasowitz by Ex-Associate with ‘Superior Legal Mind’

Former BigLaw Partner Gets 2 Years in ‘Greek Tragedy’ Tax Evasion Case

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