Partners

For Some Lawyers, the Path to Partnership Has Detours

Not every lawyer follows the traditional path from college to law school to law firm associate, yet some still manage to make partner. The National Law Journal profiles several new partners who have done everything from flying fighter planes to traveling the country with a seven-foot-tall carrot. Steven Ragland, a…

Mar 19, 2010 3:36 PM CDT

Ex-McNair Partner Accused in Alleged $3.5M Ponzi Scheme

A former partner in the McNair Law Firm has been accused of participating in a $3.5 million Ponzi scheme that lured investors with promises of returns as high as 4,900 percent in two months’ time. The Securities and Exchange Commission alleges M. Mark McAdams of Myrtle Beach, S.C., worked with…

Mar 19, 2010 2:42 PM CDT

Why So Few Women Partners? Maybe They Don’t Want the Job, Lawyer Says

A partner at Lewis and Roca in Las Vegas notes the numbers: About half of law school graduates are women, but fewer than one in five big-firm partners are women. So what are the reasons for the “leakage?” Writing for the Las Vegas Sun, lawyer Lisa Wong Lackland notes possible…

Mar 19, 2010 2:01 PM CDT

Dinsmore’s Lexington MP Sees Less ‘Burning Desire’ in New Lawyers

The outgoing managing partner of Dinsmore & Shohl’s Lexington, Ky., office says times have changed—and so have young lawyers entering law practice. Joe Terry is presiding over an office that has grown to more than 40 people as a result of Dinsmore’s September merger with Louisville-based Woodard, Hopson & Fulton,…

Mar 19, 2010 11:00 AM CDT

Co-Leader of Grant & Eisenhofer Files Suit Claiming Teens Crashed Party

One of the two managing directors of the plaintiffs securities law firm Grant & Eisenhofer is now a plaintiff in his own lawsuit with a different target: three teens he accuses of crashing his daughter’s party last July. The October suit by Stuart Grant claims the teens left the “entertainment…

Mar 18, 2010 11:00 AM CDT

5-Lawyer Edwards Angell Team Doubles Bankruptcy Group at Midsize Sullivan Firm

A five-lawyer team’s move from Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge to Sullivan & Worcester has doubled the size of the bankruptcy practice at the Boston-based midsize firm. Heading the incoming group are partners Jeanne Darcey, who served as co-chair of the restructuring and insolvency department at her former firm, and…

Mar 17, 2010 6:29 PM CDT

2 Attorneys Among 40 Defendants in $20M Texas Mortgage Fraud Case

Updated: Add at least two more lawyers to the ever-lengthening list of real estate attorneys criminally charged over their alleged participation in mortgage fraud schemes. Among 40 defendants charged by a federal grand jury indictment (PDF) announced this week in a Texas case are Daniel Ayers and Anthony Flores, reports…

Mar 17, 2010 5:24 PM CDT

Judge in Prop 8 Trial Leaves Bench During Orrick Partner’s Argument

Updated: A federal judge hearing a challenge to California’s gay-marriage ban listened to more than 90 minutes of arguments in a dispute over documents on Tuesday, but abruptly left the bench during a presentation by a lawyer from Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe. Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker “strode off…

Mar 17, 2010 2:53 PM CDT

Fish & Richardson, Leason Ellis Hire Lawyers from Dissolving IP Boutique

Five lawyers from the dissolving law firm Darby & Darby have found a new home at another intellectual property law firm, Fish & Richardson. Former Darby partners S. Peter Ludwig and Robert Sullivan are joining Fish & Richardson’s New York office, and bringing a team of three other lawyers with…

Mar 17, 2010 2:06 PM CDT

Startup Lawyer Defines Silicon Valley Clichés

A partner in a Silicon Valley law firm who works with startup companies has written something of a primer on the popular “catchphrases, clichés and buzzwords” he learned during countless hours in board meetings. Writing at Under the Radar, lawyer Ivan Gaviria of Gunderson Dettmer lists 10 “classic Valley clichés.”…

Mar 17, 2010 11:00 AM CDT

Hit Hard by Economy, Some Law Firms Borrow Big Bucks

Reluctant to ask partners to contribute more money, a “very undercapitalized” legal sector increased bank borrowing significantly during the economic downturn of the past 18 months or so, a consultant tells the London Times. A number of well-known firms based in the United Kingdom increased their borrowing by 40 percent…

Mar 16, 2010 11:30 PM CDT

Ex-Partner and Ex-Associate Battle Anapol Schwartz PI Firm Over Pay

The pay war began when Anapol Schwartz Weiss Cohan Feldman & Smalley voted to demote Howard Levin from the partnership to counsel status last year. He initially said he would accept, then, months later, changed his mind, according to a lawsuit the firm filed in Pennsylvania state court last year.…

Mar 16, 2010 4:52 PM CDT

Leader of Dissolving IP Boutique Joins Fenwick & West

A leader of dissolving intellectual property boutique Darby & Darby is headed to Fenwick & West. David Tellekson, managing principal of Darby’s Seattle office, will head Fenwick’s intellectual property litigation practice in Seattle, according to a press release. A client’s guide (PDF) issued last year by Chambers USA reports that…

Mar 16, 2010 12:09 PM CDT

CBS: Lawyer Stung Mafia Suspects to Get Witness Time in $1.2B Scheme

Just when it might seem that the saga of the $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme ex-attorney Scott Rothstein allegedly orchestrated under the guise of a South Florida law firm couldn’t get much more bizarre, a new plot twist worthy of a John Grisham or Scott Turow novel has hit the headlines.…

Mar 15, 2010 11:13 PM CDT

When Not Working for Paying Clients, Lawyer Is Suing Officials ... and Growing Veggies

Larry Loigman has a general practice in New Jersey. But the 55-year-old Middletown practitioner is best-known for what amounts to volunteer work litigating against local government, reports the Asbury Park Press. From alleged fiscal mismanagement by government officials to illegal duck crossings, Loigman doesn’t hesitate to step in and file…

Mar 15, 2010 7:33 PM CDT