Archer Norris, a Northern California firm that announced last week its intention to close its doors by mid-October, filed for bankruptcy on Aug. 22 in San Francisco.

In its Chapter 11 filing, the roughly 70-lawyer firm said its board had hired Sacramento’s Felderstein Fitzgerald Willoughby & Pascuzzi to advise it in bankruptcy court, as well as Russell Burbank, a senior managing director at accounting and consulting firm BPM, to handle its liquidation process.