Judicial Ethics
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The trustee of bankrupt Lyondell Chemical Co. has accused Brown Rudnick LLP of bungling the trust’s attempt to claw back $300 million in credit line repayments from private equity mogul Leonard Blavatnik, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday in New York federal court… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Jussie Smollett said Wednesday that the city of Chicago, its police department and others participated in a malicious prosecution of the “Empire” actor after he was attacked earlier this year and then accused of staging the incident himself… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A former attorney for Mathew Knowles, the father of pop superstar Beyonce, has asked the Texas Supreme Court to upend a lower court’s ruling that kept alive Knowles’ claims that the lawyer overcharged him for poor-quality work… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The U.S. Department of Justice announced a deal on Wednesday aimed at resolving suits seeking to seize assets stolen from the 1Malaysia Development Berhad sovereign investment fund, with $15 million of the expected $700 million recovery being set aside to pay lawyers for a key suspect in the scandal… Read this piece in its entirety…
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The pension fund for Chicago’s public transit workers has sued Dilworth Paxson LLP, a lawyer who formerly worked for the firm, and Greenberg Traurig LLP in Illinois court, claiming the firms’ participation in a tribal bond scam cost the pension fund some $6 million… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 