News Topic: Law Firms

A Florida banker will spend 2 1/2 years in prison following his conviction for helping Scott Rothstein operate a $1 billion-plus Ponzi scheme. ... Read full article

Michael I. Goldberg  is now co-chair at Akerman’s new fraud and recovery practice. Mr. Goldberg, the liquidating trustee in the Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler bankruptcy case, focuses on Ponzi schemes and receiverships. He has also represented the chapter 11 ... Read full article

Paul E. Harner has joined law firm Ballard Spahr as a partner with the restructuring practice. Mr. ... Read full article

Renée Dailey has joined law firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius as a partner with the bankruptcy and restructuring practice. Ms. Dailey has experience representing insurance companies and other institutional investors and has worked with clients in the U.S. ... Read full article

Sarah Frankel has launched the525group , a recruitment firm for professional services firms in the bankruptcy and restructuring industry. Ms. Frankel, a board adviser at the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation, has also been ... Read full article

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Chris Dickerson and Matt Murphy have joined law firm Paul Hastings in the Chicago office. Mr. ... Read full article

A former Lehman Brothers star trader secretly recorded several conversations that he says prove Lehman owes him more than $83 million in bonuses for his work done mostly in 2008, even though he received a similar amount when Barclays PLC bought Lehman, ... Read full article

Christopher Celentino has become a managing partner at the San Diego office of Ballard Spahr . Mr. Celentino, a bankruptcy and transactional finance partner at the law firm, has experience in chapter 7, chapter 11 and chapter 13 bankruptcies. He also has ... Read full article

Four years after the fall of Howrey LLP, another batch of the law firm’s former partners have agreed to settle with its bankruptcy estate. That this time, 47 ex-partners are chipping in $75,000—an average of just $1,595 each—but are also agreeing to drop ... Read full article

Jones Day  will open a permanent office in Detroit this July. The law firm, which represented the city in its chapter 9 bankruptcy case, will be headed by Timothy J. Melton, David Rutkowski and Jeff Jones. Mr. Melton will be partner in charge, while Mr. ... Read full article

President Barack Obama signs a Student Aid Bill of Rights in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., March 10, 2015. European Pressphoto Agency ... Read full article

Fireworks erupt over Metlife Stadium ahead of Super Bowl XLVIII between the Seattle Seahawks and the Denver Broncos on Feb. 2, 2014. ... Read full article

Associated Press Tuesday in Manhattan, General Motors Co.  and so-call ... Read full article

Donald Steckroth As U.S. ... Read full article

Caesars Entertainment Corp . may have violated federal law when it shuffled its casino assets, said a federal judge in a ruling that could complicate the casino company’s efforts to unload $18.4 billion in debts in a bankruptcy restructuring of its ... Read full article

Teen retailer Wet Seal  Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection early Friday morning, hoping to salvage some of its stores using a financing offer from B. Riley Co. LLC, The Wall Street Journal reports . The filing followed warnings that Wet Seal ... Read full article