I wrote blogs last year about the unfinished business doctrine as applied to defunct law firms. To summarize: I am strongly against it, both on legal grounds and on practical, economic grounds. Now we await a major decision in the … Continue reading
Despite the sharp disagreement in last year’s federal courts in New York State, a California based judge has swallowed the “unfinished business” doctrine and declared it delicious. In the Heller Ehrman LLP bankruptcy in San Francisco, several BigLaw firms refused … Continue reading
In July 2012, I wrote two blog pieces about a disturbing and growing problem: the claims of defunct law firms and their bankruptcy trustees to grab the fees earned by other law firms where the defunct firms’ attorneys had migrated … Continue reading
A few additional notes on the matter I blogged about last week: the efforts of the CRO in the Dewey bankruptcy to seek profits realized by those law firms that took in departing Dewey partners and completed work that began … Continue reading