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Corporate Counsel

Sedgwick Demise Highlights Challenges GCs Face When Outside Law Firms Dissolve

“It's in the best case somewhat disruptive and in the worst case extraordinarily disruptive to the lawyers and their clients,” said one consultant.
5 minute read

Daily Report Online

Witness in Hardwick Embezzlement Trial Describes Need to Fete Law Firm Clients

As Nat Hardwick's defense kicked off their case, prosecutors asked the judge to bar testimony by a forensic accountant who has been observing the trial.
5 minute read

Daily Report Online

Alleged Co-Conspirator a No-Show as Hardwick Prosecution Rests

Asha Maurya, the former controller for Morris Hardwick Schneider who pleaded to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, will not take the stand at Nat Hardwick's trial.
7 minute read

The Recorder

Bankrupt Law Firm's Lawyers Find New Gigs as Clawback Specialists Get Call

A pair of Am Law 200 firms have hired lawyers from defunct California shop Archer Norris, which has retained law firm bankruptcy expert Diamond McCarthy to help manage its liquidation.
6 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Less Than Two Years After Newark Exodus, Sedgwick Files for Bankruptcy as Wind-Down Fails

The firm's insolvency comes after a broad expansion effort, practice groups that sparred with each other and an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to stabilize an institution rocked by the financial uncertainty that comes with Big Law's free agent era.
13 minute read

The American Lawyer

Once Storied Sedgwick Files for Bankruptcy as Wind-Down Fails

The firm's insolvency comes after a broad expansion effort, practice groups that sparred with each other and an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to stabilize an institution rocked by the financial uncertainty that comes with Big Law's free agent era.
13 minute read

Daily Report Online

Ex-Partner Tells Jurors in Embezzlement Trial That Hardwick Kept Him in the Dark

Mark Wittstadt's lively sparring with defense attorney Ed Garland kept the jury's attention as his cross-examination got underway.
8 minute read

Daily Report Online

Hardwick's Ex-Partner Recounts Big Debts, Expenses in Embezzlement Trial

"I did not appreciate Nat Hardwick taking money from the firm I spent 46 years building," said Art Morris, who retired from now-defunct Morris Hardwick Schneider in 2013.
7 minute read

Daily Report Online

'A Thief and a Liar': Jurors Hear Accusations, Accounting as Hardwick Trial Begins

In trying to prove that Nathan Hardwick embezzled millions of dollars from his firm, prosecutors will need to guide jurors through a welter of financial records and complex details.
7 minute read

Daily Report Online

Law Firm's Bankruptcy Looms Over Hardwick Embezzlement Trial

"Muddled" escrow accounts and the "poor condition of debtors' books and records" have delayed Morris Hardwick Schneider's bankruptcy proceedings, according to bankruptcy filings from the firm and its liquidating trustee.
7 minute read

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