August 26, 2016
McDermott Will & Emery LLP on Thursday beat a suit in Ohio federal court accusing it of committing malpractice by failing to tell defunct scrapbooking giant Antioch Co. LLC to sue its directors for breach of fiduciary duty in connection with a 2003 deal that sold the company to its employees, saying the suit would have failed anyway.
April 17, 2015
An Ohio federal judge refused Friday to restart a paused malpractice suit against McDermott Will & Emery LLP over the firm's advice to former scrapbooking giant Antioch Co. LLC on employee stock payouts, despite the firm's insistence that no settlement is possible and that a Sixth Circuit ruling could add a year to the litigation.
March 13, 2015
McDermott Will & Emery LLP on Friday urged an Ohio federal judge to lift the stay of a suit claiming it didn't advise now-bankrupt Antioch Co. LLC to sue its directors after an employee stock ownership plan takeover, saying the Sixth Circuit won't rule on a motion in the underlying bankruptcy for months.
November 18, 2014
McDermott Will & Emery LLP urged an Ohio federal judge Monday to crush a legal malpractice suit over the firm’s alleged failure to advise now-bankrupt Antioch Co. LLC to sue its directors after an employee stock ownership plan takeover, saying holding the firm responsible for the scrapbook company's demise “stands corporate law on its head.”
September 04, 2014
McDermott Will & Emery LLP urged an Ohio federal judge on Thursday to toss a negligence claim brought by a trust for bankrupt The Antioch Company LLC over the law firm's alleged failure to advise Antioch to sue its directors after Antioch's employee stock ownership plan took over the company.
August 26, 2014
McDermott Will & Emery LLP on Tuesday asked an Ohio federal judge to rule out malpractice claims made by a trust for the Antioch Co. over the takeover of the company by its employee stock ownership plan, on the grounds that the trust could not establish the cause of its damages.
May 07, 2014
McDermott Will & Emery LLP told an Ohio federal judge on Wednesday that legal malpractice claims made by a trust for the Antioch Co. over the takeover of Antioch by its employee stock ownership plan hinged on an attorney's inadmissible testimony.
October 29, 2013
An Ohio federal judge clarified a malpractice suit against McDermott Will & Emery LLP on Monday, finding that one of the plaintiff's claims regarding allegedly false disclosures related to a securities transaction failed as a matter of law, but rescinding part of an earlier decision dismissing claims against the firm.
July 11, 2013
A trust for The Antioch Co. urged an Ohio federal judge Wednesday to deny McDermott Will & Emery LLP's motion to limit the scope of a malpractice claim lodged by the trust over the company's takeover by its employee stock ownership plan, calling McDermott's motion disingenuous and manipulative.
June 13, 2013
McDermott Will & Emery LLP urged an Ohio federal court on Tuesday to limit the scope of a malpractice claim lodged by a trust for The Antioch Co. over the company's takeover by its employee stock ownership plan.