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What 2024 Trends In Marketing, Comms Hiring Mean For 2025

The state of hiring in legal industry marketing, business development and communications over the past 12 months w... (more story)

How The Onion Could Still Buy InfoWars

While a Texas bankruptcy judge nixed the sale of InfoWars to The Onion on Tuesday, a slight tweak to the novel mec... (more story)

Group Running Makes Me A Better Lawyer

The combination of physical fitness and community connection derived from running with a group of business leaders... (more story)

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UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

This past week in London has seen a group of franchise operators hit Vodafone with a £120 million ($151 million) claim for allegedly imposing commission cuts, green energy tycoon Dale Vince pursue another libe... (more story)

Auto Mogul Must Turn Over Note Info In $127M Collection Row

An auto mogul, his living trust and one of his companies must turn over documents related to a $20 million payment on promissory notes as part of marathon litigation related to Alter Domus LLC's attempts to co... (more story)

Ice Miller Expands To Miami With Greenspoon Marder Hires

Ice Miller LLP announced that it launched a new location in Miami with the addition of three transactional attorneys from Greenspoon Marder LLP, in what the firm said is part of a strategy to grow its presence... (more story)

US Trustee Wants Spirit To Explain Counsel Bid For Ch. 11

The U.S. Trustee's Office is opposing Spirit Airlines' bid to hire Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP as primary counsel in its Chapter 11 and Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell LLP as its conflicts counsel, telling a New ... (more story)

Ex-Weil Restructuring Atty Returns As Co-Chair

Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP announced Friday the return of a longtime partner who departed the firm last year to lead the debtor-side restructuring practice in the U.S. for Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP.

McKinsey To Pay $650M For Work With Opioid Maker Purdue

Consulting giant McKinsey & Co. will pay $650 million to resolve charges related to its work helping Purdue Pharma market and boost sales of OxyContin, federal prosecutors announced Friday.

BakerHostetler Can't Ditch RICO Claims In Bankruptcy Fight

A Texas bankruptcy judge Wednesday trimmed fraud and legal malpractice claims alleging BakerHostetler aided a $100 million insurance fraud scheme, but he refused to throw out civil racketeering claims, finding... (more story)

Incora's Opt-Outs Not Like Class Actions, US Trustee Says

The U.S. Trustee's Office on Thursday objected to the third-party releases in the Chapter 11 plan from aircraft parts supplier Incora, arguing in a Texas bankruptcy court that the opt-out mechanism for the rel... (more story)

Texaco Says La. Suits Blocked By 1988 Ch. 11 Plan

Texaco Inc. and Louisiana state and local officials on Thursday clashed before a New York bankruptcy judge over whether the oil company's decades-old Chapter 11 plan bars the officials from suing Texaco over a... (more story)

US Trustee Wants To Pump Brakes On Spirit Airlines Ch. 11

The Office of the U.S. Trustee has objected to the pace of Spirit Airlines' Chapter 11 case, saying the ultra-low-cost carrier's bankruptcy is too large and complex for the court to allow a rush to a combined ... (more story)

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Cardi B Tries To Sink Ch. 11 Of YouTuber Who Owes Her $3.8M

Cardi B has asked a Florida bankruptcy court to dismiss the Chapter 11 case of YouTuber Tasha K, saying she deliberately hid her assets to frustrate the rapper's efforts at collecting on a $3.8 million defamation verdict.

Bidder Says Nuclear Energy Co. Breached Stalking-Horse Deal

The stalking-horse bidder for the assets of bankrupt nuclear energy developer Ultra Safe Nuclear Corp. sued the debtor in an effort to halt the bidding, accusing Ultra Safe of breaching its purchase agreement.

Silvergate Bank Slams Stockholder's Bid To Take Over Ch. 11

Bankrupt crypto-bank Silvergate has blasted an activist investor fund's effort to scuttle the debtor's exclusive Chapter 11 control in Delaware, accusing common stockholder Stilwell Activist Investments LP of ... (more story)

Manhattan Clinic Hits Ch. 11 With Up To $10M Debt

Manhattan surgical clinic Docturs Inc. has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy relief, listing up to $10 million in debt. 

Mass. Cannabis Biz Gets Receiver Amid $10M In Debt

A Massachusetts judge on Friday agreed to appoint a receiver to oversee either a sale or liquidation of cannabis grower and retailer Revolutionary Clinics, which owes nearly $10 million to its primary lender a... (more story)

Bankrupt Texas Oil Co. Gets OK For January Asset Auction

A Delaware bankruptcy judge has entered an order setting up the sale of the Texas oilfields owned by bankrupt oil and gas producer PetroQuest Energy Inc. before the end of next month.

Ch. 7 Trustee Must Explain $200M Holdback Bid, Court Told

The owner of two bankrupt real estate companies has asked a Connecticut state court for permission to question the Chapter 7 trustee who wants a $200 million placeholder in connection with a shareholder's deri... (more story)

Cooley Wins Bid To Arbitrate Fla. Malpractice Suit

A Florida state judge has granted Cooley LLP's bid to send to arbitration claims by Genetics Networks LLC that the firm failed to file documents needed to secure a lien while preparing $1.2 million in loan pap... (more story)

Lowenstein Sandler Looks To Keep Dispensary Fee Suit Alive

Lowenstein Sandler LLP has asked a New Jersey state judge to reject a bid by a New Jersey cannabis dispensary and a local firm to dismiss its suit seeking nearly $800,000 in unpaid fees while also agreeing to ... (more story)

Manhattan's Bank Note Building Sold For $20M In Ch. 11

The owner of the historic American Bank Note Co. Building, a five story residential and office space in Manhattan's financial district, accepted a $20 million credit bid for the property as part of its confirm... (more story)