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Ex-Bull Scottie Pippen Blames Law Firm for Bad Investments, Seeks $8M at Trial

A famous former basketball player for the Chicago Bulls says he lost money because an Illinois law firm didn’t do enough due diligence on the trusted adviser who allegedly cost him millions in bad investments. Scottie Pippen has already settled for $1.5 million with the bankrupt adviser, Robert Lunn. But…

Jun 9, 2010 11:34 PM CDT

Head of Holland & Knight Patent Group Leads 5-Member IP Team to Roetzel

The partner in charge of Holland & Knight’s patent practice has led a five-member intellectual property team to the Washington, D.C., office of Roetzel & Andress. The group, headed by Sunwoo Lee, includes two partners, two associates and a patent agent, the Blog of Legal Times reports. “Their wide range…

Jun 9, 2010 8:31 PM CDT

Partner Advises Women Law Grads to Value Adversity, Get Real About Balance

Andrews Kurth partner Kathleen Wu wishes someone would have told her at her law school graduation in 1985 to get real about work-life balance. It’s possible to have work and a family, Wu advises women law grads in a Texas Lawyer article. But there will be sacrifices. “Recent grads shouldn’t…

Jun 9, 2010 1:44 PM CDT

Ex-Lindquist Partner Pleads Guilty to Embezzling $2M from Firm and Clients

A former partner at Lindquist & Vennum in Minneapolis admitted in federal court on Tuesday that he began stealing money from clients and his law firm as far back as 1994, taking some $2 million in all. Michael Margulies, 56, was released after his guilty plea to wire fraud, according…

Jun 9, 2010 11:29 AM CDT

Ex-NC Governor and AG Mike Easley Is On Leave From McGuireWoods

A former governor and attorney general of North Carolina has taken a leave of absence from McGuireWoods at his own request and for undisclosed reasons, according to the Raleigh News & Observer. “We were supportive,” says firm counsel William Allcott of Mike Easley’s request for a leave several weeks ago.…

Jun 8, 2010 5:03 PM CDT

Gov’t Seeks 40 Years for Ex-Lawyer Rothstein in $1.2B Case, But Will Sentence Be the Final Answer?

Prosecutors are asking a federal judge to sentence ex-attorney Scott Rothstein tomorrow to a 40-year prison term for operating a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme out of his former South Florida law firm. He is seeking a 30-year term. The maximum sentence is 100 years, but the government has asked for…

Jun 8, 2010 3:34 PM CDT

Ex-BigLaw Attorneys Profit at Smaller Firm via Flexible Fees & Eat-What-You-Kill Comp

A willingness to be flexible about hourly billing rates and an eat-what-you-kill compensation structure has proven profitable for former BigLaw attorneys now practicing in the “Philadelphia” office of Chamberlain Hrdlicka. The office, which actually is located in Conshohocken, Pa., in the Philadelphia suburbs, resulted from a parting of the ways…

Jun 7, 2010 6:12 PM CDT

Travel Agent’s Input Led to New Houston Office for Blank Rome

Blank Rome uses one agency to make arrangements for lawyers traveling on business. So when the firm was deciding where to focus its latest expansion efforts, it sought input from the Lawyers Travel Service, co-chairman Alan Hoffman tells the Law & Finance blog of the Philadelphia Business Journal. The travel…

Jun 7, 2010 4:08 PM CDT

Lawyer Quits Covington, Makes $12K a Speech

Tax law partner Andrew Friedman quit Covington & Burling two years ago after spending 28 years at the law firm, but he isn’t hurting financially in his new occupation. Friedman is paid up to $12,000 a day, along with expenses, to give speeches explaining how laws and regulations affect investments,…

Jun 7, 2010 11:31 AM CDT

Winston & Strawn Partner Said to Be Mystery Lawyer Linked to Accused Moneyman

Press reports have identified a previously unnamed lawyer linked to a well-known financial adviser accused in an alleged $30 million financial fraud. The lawyer was called “Associate 4” in the complaint against Manhattan moneyman Kenneth Ira Starr, a graduate of Brooklyn Law School who is no relation to the former…

Jun 7, 2010 11:00 AM CDT

Law Jobs Still Lacking: Legal Sector Lost 22,200 in a Year, But Added 300 Last Month

The economy is showing some signs of recovery—including a gain of 300 legal-sector jobs in May, versus the loss of hundreds the previous month, according to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics report. But accounts of the legal employment market still paint a grim picture of the situation many attorneys…

Jun 5, 2010 12:35 AM CDT

Major Law Firm Looks to ‘85 Broads’ for Female Attorney Empowerment

A major New Jersey-based law firm is looking to a global women’s networking group with a memorable name to help the firm’s seasoned female attorneys expand their professional contacts and influence. McCarter & English is now part of the 85 Broads community, reports the Hartford Business Journal. In a law…

Jun 4, 2010 6:05 PM CDT

Another Scam Targets Lawyers: Pay My Cab Fare and I’ll Return Your Package

Amid reports that law firms are being targeted in high-dollar international “settlement” check frauds comes news that at least one enterprising criminal right here in the United States is successfully scamming attorneys in a far less ambitious con. A man who has often identified himself as “Jimmy” has contacted at…

Jun 3, 2010 9:07 PM CDT

Seeming Case-Related Slayings This Week: 3 Judges, 2 Clerks, 1 Lawyer, 11 Others

A magistrate judge and a court clerk were shot to death today in Belgium as they were in a courtroom working on a civil case near the Palais de Justice in Brussels. It is the first time in the country’s history that a magistrate has been killed in a courtroom,…

Jun 3, 2010 7:06 PM CDT

Meet Eduardo Leite: Brazil-Based Energy Lawyer Set to Lead Baker & McKenzie

In an unusual move for a United States-based law firm, Baker & McKenzie has appointed a Brazilian energy lawyer as its global chairman. Eduardo Leite will take up his position at the helm of the Chicago-based international megafirm at the end of October. He presently works out of the Sao…

Jun 3, 2010 5:19 PM CDT