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Try as it might, LewisBrisbois Bisgaard & Smith can’t seem to keep its name out of headlines that cast the firm in a negative light. In recent years, the firm suffered a defection en masse, when more than 100 attorneys left to join a (now defunct) boutique firm.
Query: Should the client punish the lawyers' prior firm for this? The post LA County Fires LewisBrisbois Over Racist Emails… From Lawyers Who Left The Firm… That The Firm Disclosed To The Public appeared first on Above the Law.
The firm has officially flopped, all thanks to its former leaders' offensive emails. The post Scandalous LewisBrisbois Breakaway Firm Will Close Its Doors After Last Defectors Flee appeared first on Above the Law.
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Our own Legal Staffing Experts, Chere Estrin and Lynda Stevens, were contacted by Law360 regarding this year’s bombshell fallout of hate, sexism and antisemitism that blew up Daugherty Lordan LLP and still roils & LewisBrisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP. It’s just this domino effect.” 23, 130 partners and 148 associates.
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million for registering a Texas business using the name of LewisBrisbois Bisgaard & Smith, the law firm representing their litigation opponent in the rental litigation. Updated: A federal judge in Houston has ordered a lawyer and a pro se litigant in a rental-fee and eviction dispute to pay $1.5
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The University of California told Law360 Pulse exclusively on Thursday that it has stopped referring new work to LewisBrisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP after the firm released internal emails exposing offensive language and derogatory remarks exchanged between two former senior partners.
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NBC ] * LewisBrisbois sued for bias. A lobbying firm that hands him a penny after he retires is just wildly mismanaged. Now Nashville doesn't have to compete with some robot going "I love trucks and drink beer and hate migrants" all played over the same stupid chord progression. How could something like that have happened at.
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National firmLewisBrisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP has increased its attorney roster in Delaware to five with the addition of a partner in the firm's complex business and commercial litigation, corporate, and bankruptcy and insolvency practices.
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Chicago Partner Timothy J. Young successfully resolved a Cook County traumatic brain injury and orthopedic injury bus case on behalf of a national client.
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These emails are incredibly inappropriate. Read at your own risk. The post Leaders Of Barber Ranen Exchanged Racist, Sexist, Antisemitic Emails For Years appeared first on Above the Law.
The rise and incredibly quick fall of a law firm thanks to its leaders inappropriate emails. The post Barber Ranen Leaders Resign From Their Own Firm After Racist, Sexist, Antisemitic Emails Are Leaked appeared first on Above the Law.
That's more than 8% of the firm's lawyers. The post Partners Lead Mass Defection From Biglaw Firm, With Up To 140 Lawyers Set To Join New Boutique appeared first on Above the Law.
15 years of Racism Destroys 2 High Profile Attorneys Last week, the LA Times reported on one of the biggest law firm scandals of the year. But over the weekend, LewisBrisbois struck back. An Asian job applicant was denigrated for the supposed size of his genitalia. – LA Times Revenge served ice cold?
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Bloomberg Law News ] * Law firm closing up shop after nearly a century in business. Law.com ] * Ed Blum is taking his effort to stamp out diversity from the classroom to the boardroom, going after a venture capital firm that invests in Black-owned businesses.
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