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Orrick Wants Heller Ehrman Clawback Ruling RevisitedLaw360 (subscription)Law360, New York (May 16, 2013, 8:47 PM ET) -- Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP asked a California federal judge on Wednesday to review a bankruptcy judge's ruling in favor of claims that the law firm wrongfully hired former partners of defunct
Heller …
InsideCounselHeller Ehrman Settles Legal-Fee Fight With Ex-Refco ExecLaw360 (subscription)Law360, New York (May 09, 2013, 6:49 PM ET) -- A California bankruptcy court on Thursday allowed bankrupt law firm
Heller Ehrman LLP's to settle a dispute over legal fees with a former Refco Inc. executive that stemmed in part from a securities class …
Greenberg To Pay $5M To End Heller Ehrman Malpractice RowLaw360 (subscription)Law360, New York (April 25, 2013, 10:08 PM ET) -- Greenberg Traurig LLP on Thursday agreed to pay $4.9 million to
Heller Ehrman LLP to settle the bankrupt law firm's malpractice suit alleging Greenberg hid a conflict of interest when it represented …
The Never Ending Story of Unfinished BusinessNew York Law Journal (registration)The court granted the
Heller Ehrman trustee's motion for summary judgment on its claims for unfinished business concerning hourly billing by the law firms that hired former
Heller Ehrman partners. The court held that Davis Wright Tremaine, Foley …
Formerly homeless mother of four settles into South City complexSan Francisco Business Times (blog)Soeganda found herself unemployed at the height of the financial crisis, a time when law firms like
Heller Ehrman were going bankrupt. After her unemployment ran out, she moved her family in with relatives for a while and eventually sought help from …
Update on Fee Suits and Unfinished BusinessNew York Law Journal (registration)In the latest ruling in connection with the demise of the
Heller Ehrman firm, the federal bankruptcy judge hearing the case recently granted summary judgment to the bankrupt law firm in lawsuits to recover fees the firm's former members earned on cases …
The Rule of LawyersWall Street JournalThe author's gloomy predictions about Big Law's future rest almost completely on the fate of a small number of firms that were doomed by hubris: Finley, Kumble in the 1980s;
Heller Ehrman, which closed its doors in 2008; and especially Dewey & LeBoeuf, …
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