Mid Cap
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October 22, 2024
How Law Firms Get And Keep Elite Status
For decades, a handful of New York-based law firms thoroughly dominated the national consciousness when it came to power, profitability and prestige. But in today's legal market, increased movement of partners and clients from one firm to the next has begun to shake things up and create opportunities for go-getters to ascend the ranks.
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October 22, 2024
The 2024 Prestige Leaders
Check out our Prestige Leaders ranking, analysis and interactive graphics to see which firms stand out for their financial performance, attractiveness to attorneys and law students, ability to secure accolades and positive legal news media representation.
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October 22, 2024
Cleaning Products Co. Gets OK For Ch. 11 Plan, Creditor Deal
A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Tuesday approved cleaning products company Supply Source Enterprises Inc.'s Chapter 11 liquidation plan after hearing that more than $1.3 million had been set aside from its July asset sale to pay unsecured creditors.
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October 21, 2024
US Trustee Blasts Expenses In Bid For Avante Health Parent
The U.S. Trustee's Office has asked a Delaware bankruptcy judge to reject Jordan Health Products' request to pay its stalking horse bidder up to $750,000 in expense reimbursement, saying the bidder bought Jordan's debt for the express purpose of making the bid, so there is no need to sweeten the deal.
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October 21, 2024
Keeping Track Of The Catholic Diocese Bankruptcy Cases
The Archdiocese of Los Angeles agreed last week to pay $880 million to resolve more than 1,300 claims of child sexual abuse in a deal that was noteworthy both for its size and for how it was achieved: without bankruptcy.
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October 21, 2024
Basic Fun Resolves Objection, Gets Nod For Ch. 11 Plan
A Delaware bankruptcy judge agreed Monday to confirm the Chapter 11 restructuring plan of toymaker Basic Fun, saying the company's creditors had been adequately informed and he appreciated the work done to reach terms that satisfied all parties involved.
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October 21, 2024
Giuliani Tries To Nix Dominion Suit, FTX Exec Seeks Leniency
Colorado judges are skeptical of Rudy Giuliani's attempt to throw out a defamation lawsuit from a former Dominion Voting Systems executive amid ongoing bankruptcy proceedings, the former head of engineering at FTX is fighting for leniency from a Manhattan federal judge, and a former bankruptcy judge is challenging a subpoena for banking records in an investigation over a secret relationship. This is the week in bankruptcy.
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October 21, 2024
Texas Pipe Co. Gets $15M Asset Bid In Ch. 11 Auction
Pipe distributor Tubular Synergy Group has told a Texas bankruptcy judge it secured a more than $14.9 million bid from pipe manufacturer Centric Pipe LLC for various assets in its Chapter 11 case.
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October 21, 2024
Litigation Funding Firms Aim To Escape Hurricane Ad Suit
Two litigation funders are urging a Texas federal court to adopt a magistrate judge's recommendation to toss claims against them in a proposed class action alleging a law firm deceptively advertised to hurricane victims.
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October 21, 2024
Justices Won't Review IRS' Additions To Developer's $2M Deal
The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday it wouldn't review an Eleventh Circuit decision allowing the Internal Revenue Service to back out of a deal to settle an Alabama real estate developer's tax debt for $2 million.
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October 18, 2024
Law360 MVP Awards Go To Top Attys From 74 Firms
The attorneys chosen as Law360's 2024 MVPs have distinguished themselves from their peers by securing hard-earned successes in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-breaking deals.
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October 18, 2024
Chancery Keeps Better Therapeutics SPAC Suit Alive
A Delaware vice chancellor on Friday refused to dismiss a suit challenging the take-public merger of now-defunct Better Therapeutics, saying the investors have sufficiently pleaded direct breach of fiduciary duty claims against the medical technology business' special purpose acquisition company partner and its directors.
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October 18, 2024
Under The Radar: Bankruptcy News You May Have Missed
Johnson & Johnson, Imerys Talc, Cyprus Mines, Takeoff Technologies and SunPower Corp. all fielded objections to their Chapter 11 bankruptcies, from their creditors' committees or the Office of the U.S. Trustee or both, with the U.S. Trustee largely raising concerns about overbroad releases.
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October 18, 2024
More Than Just Superheroes: Marvel Inked Ch. 11 Legacy
The nearly three-decade-old bankruptcy and reorganization of comic book giant Marvel produced a company that has become a major force in Hollywood, but it also led to an enduring legal precedent on conflict-of-interest standards for bankruptcy professionals that is still cited today.
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October 18, 2024
NYC Building Sold After Losing Half Of Tenants To Ch. 11
A historic mixed-use building in New York City's Chelsea neighborhood that was ravaged by the bankruptcies of two major tenants has been acquired and recapitalized by a partnership of RXR Realty and Hudson Bay Capital through a $421 million financing package from Blackstone, the buyers announced Friday.
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October 17, 2024
Atty's 'Groundhog Day' Motion Trims Ex-Girardi Client's Suit
A California state judge on Thursday trimmed a family's $1.8 million malpractice lawsuit against an attorney that represented it in recovering millions lost in Girardi Keese's embezzlement scandal, calling a bid to nix one of the suit's claims a "Groundhog Day" motion because she already granted a similar one from the attorney's firm.
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October 17, 2024
Colorado Judges Doubt Giuliani Shielded For 2020 Lies
Colorado appellate judges appeared skeptical Thursday of Rudy Giuliani's bid to escape a defamation lawsuit by a former executive for Dominion Voting Systems, noting that they already found Giuliani's statements weren't protected in a related appeal.
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October 17, 2024
Behind The Ch. 11 Filing Of Digital Media Solutions
An increase in car crashes was among the factors that helped lead to the Chapter 11 filing of online advertising company Digital Media Solutions, one of the latest debtors to file for bankruptcy following a reversal of fortunes after the COVID-19 pandemic.
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October 17, 2024
Truck Rental Co. Starts Ch. 11 With Plans To Sell
A Colorado-based truck rental business filed for Chapter 11 protection late Wednesday in Delaware, hoping to sell its assets as a going concern following a liquidity crunch.
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October 17, 2024
A&O Shearman Taps Governance Veteran To Co-Lead Practice
A&O Shearman said Thursday that it has tapped a longtime partner to co-head the firm's compensation, employment, pensions and governance practice, bringing it under the joint leadership of alum from each of its two legacy firms after the merger between New York-based Shearman & Sterling and London-based legacy firm Allen & Overy became official last May.
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October 17, 2024
Biolase Gets Go-Ahead For Nov. Asset Auction
A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Thursday said she would send dental laser maker Biolase to the auction block in a little over two weeks with a $14 million opening bid from a company embroiled in a patent dispute with the debtor.
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October 17, 2024
NJ Injury Firm Heads To Ch. 11 Under $700K State Tax Debt
New Jersey personal injury attorney law firm Michael J. Weiss Inc. has hit Chapter 11 with $697,397.86 in state tax liability, according to court filings.
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October 16, 2024
NYC Condo Building's Revised Ch. 11 Plan Gets Confirmation
A New York federal bankruptcy judge has confirmed the owner of a Manhattan condominium complex's revised Chapter 11 plan, signing off on the planned restructuring after initially sending it back for revisions in late September, according to a notice filed Wednesday.
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October 16, 2024
Profs Urge 3rd Circ. To Rethink Reopening Shipbuilder Ch. 11
A group of law professors have asked the Third Circuit to grant shipbuilder Bath Iron Works' request for a rehearing on its bid to reopen the Chapter 11 case of its former affiliate in order to allocate responsibility for a number of environmental remediation costs, saying it is of "central importance" a bankruptcy court and not a civil court adjudicate the issue.
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October 16, 2024
Catching Up With New Bankruptcy Case Action
Several companies including True Value, Accuride and Jordan Health filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy over the past week, citing financial strains from inflation, supply-chain issues and market changes.