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Proskauer Beats Megabucks Class Action Over Work for Ponzi Schemer
Proskauer Rose and Chadbourne & Parke are immune from liability for the conduct of a former partner at the firms who was accused of helping R. Allen Stanford orchestrate a $7 billion fraud, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.
Get Rich and Get Bill Brewer; Fiddy Taps Texas Litigator
Curtis Jackson III, a rapper known as 50 Cent, has assembled a high-powered legal team as he files for personal bankruptcy protection in Connecticut following an adverse $5 million judgment against him in sex tape litigation.
The Churn: A Dechert Partner Decamps, Plus More Lateral Moves
A high-powered litigator leaves Dechert, more departures from Bingham McCutchen and a rare outside hire by Wachtell Lipton in our latest look at lateral moves from throughout The Am Law 200.
Spencer Barasch Poised to Leave Andrews Kurth
The longtime head of Andrews Kurth's corporate governance and securities practice is preparing to leave the firm just weeks after it settled a malpractice case seeking $50 million in damages over its representation of an affiliate of convicted Ponzi schemer R. Allen Stanford.The Churn: Dickstein Group Defects, Plus More Lateral Moves
Greenberg Traurig has raided Dickstein Shapiro for 13 lawyers and lobbyists in Washington, D.C., Paul Hastings plucks Kaye Scholer's white-collar and internal investigations chair and Troutman Sanders snags Hughes Hubbard's private equity chair in the latest round of lateral moves from throughout The Am Law 200.The Churn: Covington Adds EU Competition Head, Plus More Lateral Moves
Covington hires Clifford Chance partner Johan Ysewyn in Brussels to head its European competition practice while another partner returns to the fold.The Churn: FTC Lawyer Joins Weil, Plus More Lateral Moves
Weil adds Jeffrey Perry, assistant director of the FTC's competition bureau, in Washington, D.C.The Churn: Bingham Departures Continue, Plus More Lateral Moves
Bingham & McCutchen loses a real estate finance partner to Holland & Knight and litigator to Stubbs Alderton Markiles; Greenberg Traurig adds a former FINRA enforcement counsel; and Holland & Hart absorbs a Salt Lake City tax boutique. The Churn is constant. Please send all announcements to [email protected].
The Churn: Lateral Moves and Promotions in the Am Law 200
Davis Polk & Wardwell launches a Hong Kong litigation practice with two former partners from Clifford Chance; a group of five real estate attorneys are leaving Broad and Cassel to join Holland & Knight in Miami; and a Mayer Brown partner is unanimously approved to become the Northern District of Illinois's next district judge. The Churn is constant. Please send all announcements to [email protected].
Tew Cardenas Gets $200 Million Claim Dropped Against Accounting Firm Targeted After Payroll Fraud Scandal
Publication Date: 2011-08-23 Practice Area: Industry: Court: Judge: Attorneys: For plaintiff: For defendant: Case number:
Using some of the same tactics now being employed by defendants in the Madoff proceedings, Tew Cardenas got the case transferred out of bankruptcy court into district court, and then won two pretrial motions that decimated the case against their clients.
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