March 11, 2024
A former K&L Gates LLP partner sentenced to two years in prison for cyberstalking and harassing his colleagues has moved for compassionate release seven months before his release date, citing his deteriorating health and poor living conditions behind bars.
February 10, 2023
A Manhattan federal judge sentenced former K&L Gates partner Willie Dennis to two years in prison Friday for a "terrible" course of cyberstalking that targeted his former BigLaw colleagues, holding that the fear he inflicted on his victims merits prison.
October 17, 2022
A Manhattan federal jury on Monday found a fired K&L Gates LLP partner guilty of criminal cyberstalking in a digital harassment campaign targeting former colleagues at the law firm, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
October 11, 2022
A fired K&L Gates partner told an ex-colleague to "sleep with one eye open" as part of a digital harassment campaign targeting attorneys at the firm, prosecutors told a Manhattan federal jury on the first day of a criminal cyberstalking trial Tuesday.
September 28, 2022
Federal prosecutors are asking for further evidence to be admitted in a criminal case accusing a former K&L Gates partner of cyberstalking colleagues, saying the attorney also physically stalked and intimidated victims after he was banned from the firm's New York office.
August 18, 2022
Manhattan U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff cleared the way Thursday for former K&L Gates partner Willie Dennis to defend himself against federal cyberstalking charges at an October trial, but warned Dennis to abide by his rules limiting email communications.
August 12, 2022
The Manhattan U.S. attorney's cyberstalking case against fired K&L Gates partner Willie Dennis was abruptly transferred to U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff on Friday with a scheduled September jury trial looming.
May 05, 2022
The former K&L Gates LLP partner charged with cyberstalking former colleagues cannot be allowed to shed an ankle monitor and leave home confinement simply because he is following the conditions of his bail, federal prosecutors told a New York judge on Wednesday.
January 26, 2022
An indicted former K&L Gates LLP partner can't get his ankle monitor removed, a New York federal judge decided on Wednesday, agreeing with a doctor that the device likely did not cause the fired attorney to develop a hernia as he'd claimed.
January 12, 2022
Prosecutors told a New York federal court that they find it "hard to believe" a 6.1-ounce ankle monitor caused a hernia for a fired K&L Gates partner criminally charged with mounting a nearly two-year harassment campaign against colleagues, claiming Wednesday the device shouldn't be removed because he is a flight risk.